Magic has returned, Chaos has arisen, and ten-year-old Rory is the only boy left in the whole world. In his world, at least, where home is an island where there is water on all sides, and the women who are left are coping as best they can with life as it must now be lived. Then a strange threesome arrive on the island, two of them men, and Rory is drawn with them to the Mainland, where it all started, and where Rory is going to find out that the magic and adventure he has wished for when reading his comics have a darker and much more terrifying side.