A young copy goes for a drive through unknown territory and nearly drive into a lake. They like what they see, and decided to move there as another Greater Universal Mystery adventure. They meet a quirky book seller and move into his house across the bay of Lake Dock. Things happen when it starts to rain, and mysterious, horrible aroma pervades the air around the town of Stranton. It finds Tim in Abel Baker's bookshop, and his wife Ellie, in the Gnosh n' Go, the local restaurant she finds work. Secrets are revealed, including, who really owns Stranton and its neighbouring sister-town, Gate's Crossing. What is it, and how does it get into their new home, The While House, and why?