For Kathryn Ardleigh and her newly Lorded husband, Charles, a seaside holiday in Rottingdean is a much-needed respite. Known as Smuggler's Village, the cozy hamlet sits upon a labyrinth of hundred-year-old tunnels through which contraband goods were once smuggled in and out of England.

But when the body of a coast guard is found on the beach, the couple suspect the town is still plying the illicit trades of its past. And with the help pf an imaginative young writer named Rudyard Kipling, they're about to discover that something's rotten in the town of Rottingdean...