Detective Inspector Brighton of Scotland Yard doesn’t believe in magick... until a disturbing police investigation takes an unexpected turn. 

As the forensic evidence mounts up, even Brighton can’t ignore the links between a series of child kidnappings in London, and his estranged mother’s best-selling fantasy adventure series. 

When his own daughter is kidnapped, Brighton realises that everything in his mother’s books is real, and that somehow, she’s managed to incur the wrath of an evil wizard. 

When a nuclear missile is stolen deep in Dartmoor Forest, all the evidence leads Brighton to the magical wooded world where his daughter is being held prisoner. 

Joined in his quest by a feisty fairy, a forensics geek, and a flatulent brouny who loves a good curry; Brighton must start believing, if he’s to save his broken family from a thermonuclear future. Will he find the missile in time?