In a fantastical, dangerous new quest, best friends Kip, Albert, Leela and Timmi must solve the riddles of renaissance genius and college founder Eartha Quicksmith to save the world from the evil Grittleshank Corporation once and for all. The journey sees the team follow Eartha’s clues to a ‘spaceship’ which can travel through the earth’s crust and into the transparent Smouldersphere in pursuit of their goal. Captured by the mysterious Nexus organisation in the ice flows of the North they must use all their wit and skills to escape. But when Kip discovers his mum is a hostage of the Grittleshanks, can anything stop the Corporation’s devastating raid on the world’s energy, and his family?