The Strega-Borgia children are still reeling from the shock of their nannys disappearance at the end of Deep Trouble. Without Flora to tend to them the kids are growing up fast. Indeed Titus is in the throes of a deeply embarrassing & magically accelerated puberty while all around the usual chaos reigns. Baby Damp is learning to fly under the tutelage of a bat called Vesper Ffup the dragon is struggling with the Atkins diet & Tarantella the tarantula is trying to teach her daughters the rudiments of mascara. So far so Strega Schloss but add in an arrest for murder a demon intent on revenge & a suicidal deep-frozen ancestor & you have a recipe that could only be cooked up in a Gliori-cauldron.