Life in Brisbane is never simple for those who walk between the worlds. Verity's all about protecting her city, but right now that's mostly handling the less exciting cases for the Weyrd Council - after all, its hard to chase the bad guys through the streets of Brisbane when you're really, really pregnant. An insurance investigation sounds pretty harmless, even if it is for 'Unusual Happenstance' - all-purpose hauntings, angry genii loci, ectoplasmic home invasion, demonic possession, that sort of thing - but Susan Beckett's house keeps getting inundated with mud. She's still insisting she doesn't need or want help ... until the dry-land drownings begin.