One cold November night, high on Whitby's abbey plain, a scale-covered claw burrows out of the earth, and into the pale moonlight a hideous creature worms its way...

As the morning train stops at Whitby station a mysterious man alights, and looks about him with keen interest...

On Whitby beach, Nelda the aufwader waits, her heart filled with the dread that a terrible doom is about to overcome her people...

In this second griping book in the Whitby series, Miss Boston, Jennet and Ben are pitted against a new and even more deadly enemy - but can they succeed a second time?