The ashes of St. Hilarion's have barely settled before the tabloids start a witch hunt against "pyrobrainiac" Crystal Palace in the first chapter of the new story, "Ghost Snow." Charles Rowland and Edwin Paine spirit their new friend away from London and accept the invitation from Charles's long-lost sister Clementine to visit her and her science-boffin daughter, Miranda, deep in weird and wild East Anglia.