Rachael O'Brien is bound for England. Accompanied by her eccentric grandmother, Dad's assistant, Edmond, and her very good-looking, gay friend Travis, she thinks that distancing herself from the southern men she's developed an appetite for, and the trauma she left in the swamp, is the emotional breather she needs. But for Rachael, nothing is ever simple and an oyster brooch with a murky past leads her into trouble.Discovering that she has been followed across the Atlantic by a mysterious agent, surviving British culinary challenges becomes the least of her worries. After hotel rooms are ransacked, and Edmond is detained by Scotland Yard, her grandmother sends her down the River Thames in a narrowboat.With thugs in pursuit, Rachael's expedition crashes along the banks of English canals as she journey's to unearth the stunning secrets embedded within the golden brooch in Paisley Ray's TOAD IN THE HOLE.