Miss Blaine’s Prefect and the Uncharted Island
Fifty-something Edinburgh librarian Shona McMonagle is a proud former pupil and prefect of the Marcia Blaine School for Girls. Thanks to her alma mater, she is impeccably educated and an accomplished linguist, mathematician, martial artist, and musician, all of which being excellent training for working in a library and other challenges.
After a visit from Miss Blaine herself, involving a bad-tempered exchange about Robinson Crusoe and improper book shelving, Shona has a new, confusing mission. She finds herself on an island, with little in the way of clues to help her decipher why she’s there. Despite initially wondering if this might be a rare treat from Miss Blaine, she soon realises this is no holiday. She has been cast away in the Baltic Sea – and it’s the fifteenth century.