Publisher's Synopsis
Charlie comes to another boy's rescue at school for what seems at first to be just an ordinary, if unpleasant, piece of bullying. But other children claim that this boy is a witch or a vampire and possesses the evil eye, and now he's drawing Charlieinto his power. However, in this extraordinary novel nothing is quite as it seems. Charlie photographs a mysterious otter swimming at night - and as the mystery unfolds it seems that the midnight swimmer and the strange boy could be one and the same!