What's a girl from the 1980s doing in a photograph taken in 1914? And how can Jack, viewing it 100 years later, get to her? What have Toad, Mole and Ratty got to do with it, to say nothing of Long John Silver and Sherlock Holmes.
A library's at the heart of it, a library created by the sinister Sybilla Devine. Can Jack frustrate her ambitions? Can he get the girl?