When reluctant hero Bayliss is uprooted from his comfortable urban environment and transplanted to the leafy glades of the New Forest, he's hoping to rekindle his relationship with the woman he loved and lost a year ago. What he's not counting on is having to confront an ancient and verdant power, armed only with a compass he can't make head or tail of and what may or may not be a magic sword - the jury's still out on that one...