Ruby Randall is a freak. The doctors know it, the school bullies know it, and Ruby knows it. But when Ruby gets caught up on the secret school run for children of abominable beasts and spirits, she finds herself in the odd position of being 'normal'. Desperate to find a way home, Ruby is assisted by the roguish Luca Ardesia of the Benandanti Werewolves, a shy vampire called Nez, and Ula, a crabby tooth fairy. But while plot is hatched to aid her escape, nine Selkie mermaids go missing, Queen Elizabeth is kidnapped, and Ruby discovers that the two are connected when flesh-eating Doggerlanders reappear from the mists of time to take over the world. The Doggerlanders' first target is Ruby's home town of Dover, and Ruby is determined to stop them. But can she