The Dragon and I cried out, after being released from our bonds, and I waved my hands in the air where Rochelle had been standing, in some vain attempt to determine whether she was still there or whether she had vanished, but as may be expected, my hands passed through thin air. "Rochelle!" I looked round in desperation. "Rochelle! where are you? Where have they taken you! Rochelle!"

On a trip to the town of Scrywood, Geoffrey's foster-daughter is spirited away, the place she is taken to as obscure as the identity of her captors. Aided by the pirates of the Blushing Mermaid as well as the thieves' guild of Corunna, Geoffrey and his companions cross the Tainted Sea in a desperate quest to save the child. Is she still alive? And who is the mysterious figure behind her capture?