Bertie sets off to find out why the people of Grottenstown are falling desperately ill, and gets a sense of impending disaster; Poppy's school is visited by a lady in white.
A story of friendship, loyalty and courage set during the 1918 global influenza pandemic. A glamorous stranger arrives in Grottenstown on the morning train, and citizens start dying. She is the Spanish Lady, the flu virus. Only the town screw-up, Bertie, realizes what's going on, and of course no one believes him. To save a neighbour's young daughter, he must challenge the Spanish Lady and enter her underworld - The Darkness.
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