Danny Hawker's fascination with the brilliant and charismatic Professor Lovell, the beautiful red-headed American academic, leads him across the Atlantic, from the depressing ruins of Haplow Hall, his crumbling and derelict stately home, to the deceptive paradise of the Land of the Magic Dragon. Here by a remote lake in Missouri there is music, laughter, love, happiness, and a crowd of rich and beautiful people... but nothing is quite what it seems. The twelfth and final volume of the Hawker Chronicles brings the saga to its conclusion with a tale of addiction, obsessive love, and a hunt for the lost pirate treasure that might one day save Haplow from the unthinkable fate of demolition.