The day Ruth Maguire encounters the wet man on the lonely Wrack Road seems no different to any other, but their meeting on the bleak Dooney Headland, where Ruth lives with her mother and brother and little sister, has terrifying consequences.
A man wrote this little mystery under a female pseudonym, involving a stranger who may be more suspicious than he seems to the country folk. An intelligent teenaged girl who can't be "got 'round" by her own younger siblings may be more of a challenge than one might think.