Fenn Farrow longs for adventure, but sneaking away from home in the back of a tinker's wagon may not have been the best way to go about it. She awakens, disoriented and confused, in a land she's never heard of, with no recollection of how she got there.

And as Fenn soon discovers, the City of Yarde, home of the Duke and his prize turnip, is on high alert.

The Beast is afoot.

And it's devouring everything it can get its claws on. The townsfolk are terrified. No one knows what-- or who --will be next.

Dreams of adventure forgotten, all Fenn wants now is to get home to the quiet forest town of Wynne. But she has got no idea where home is. And the longer she spends in Yarde, the more the gnawing fear grows that her presence and that of the frightful Beast are somehow tied together.

She's not the only one that suspects.

Lost and alone, with no friends to speak of and danger round lurking round every corner, can Fenn find her way before disaster strikes again?

...Or will she too wind up at the bottom of the belly of the Beast?