At the heart of Ryhope Wood Steven & the mythago Guiwenneth live in the ruins of a Roman villa close to a haunted fortress from the Iron Age from which Guiwenneths myth arose. She is comfortable here almost tied to the place & Steven has long since abandoned all thought of returning to his own world. They have animals protection & crops. They also have two children a combination of human & mythago. Jack is like his father an active boy keen to know all about the outer world; Yssobel takes after her mother even to her long auburn hair. But this idyll cannot last. The hunters who protected Guiwenneth as a child have come to warn her she is in danger. Yssobel is dreaming increasingly of her Uncle Christian Stevens brother who disappeared into Lavondyss & Jack wants to see the outer world more than anything. Events are about to overtake them.