In this fable for our times, feisty M'bali Hoyle has returned to the town of her youthful disgrace.  Will tiny, isolated Quimbleton take her to its heart this time? Two glamorous visitors drop into her world just as she meets ex-rock star Hayes. Only M'bali sees the dark threat behind their glitzy facades. How can she convince Hayes and the starstruck locals, a cast of rural eccentrics, that her intuition is right? Can she draw them all more or less together when danger strikes? With a dry wit, the narrator observes the foibles of human nature as the reader is launched into a twisting, turning adventure with the future of life on Earth at its core.