Suzy Winnicroft was just an ordinary twelve-year-old girl when she met an unusual character called Scratch, a special creature called a paxtey, who introduced her to a whole race of beings like him who live in her local warren by the sea.
Suzy soon finds that there is a special reason for her discovery, and after some unusually fierce storms that began with an evil voice in the mist, she embarks on an adventure with Scratch.