Ada Goth lives in Ghastly-Gorm Hall with her father, Lord Goth, the famous cycling poet. Lord Goth is throwing a music festival at Ghastly-Gorm Hall, with performances from the finest musicians in the land. Ada can't wait, but it's quite distracting when her grandmother is trying to find her father a fashionable new wife, there's a faun living in her wardrobe, and Maltravers is up to his old tricks. Ada must make sure everything goes to plan, and luckily help is at hand from a very interesting house guest...