Untitled Beaufort Scales — Kim M. Watt

This winter in Toot Hansell the rain's endless, the water's undrinkable, and the village is slowly turning into a marsh. The local water sprite, Nellie, could probably sort it all out - if she hadn't mysteriously vanished, leaving behind a battalion of furious geese. Now the only clean water in town is arriving in pricey bottles from Toot Hansell's new wellness guru, Lachlan Jameson. Meanwhile, people are disappearing, strange faces are appearing in the streams, and quicksand is becoming a real concern. The dragons and ladies of the Women's Institute are not going to stand by and watch their village drown. But the deeper they wade into the mystery, the murkier things get. Something is lurking in the depths . . . It'll take tea, teamwork, and all the stubborn deviousness of ladies of a certain age to keep Toot Hansell from being washed off the map . . .