Publisher's blurb: The country where the adventure is set is in the grip of a second year of famine. To alleviate the famine a convoy of merchant ships was chartered and as they approached the port they were attacked. Every ship was sunk bar one. This last merchant vessel, the “Die Magd der Königinnen” was locked together with the ship that had rammed it. The characters were employed by a town guard captain Mara Lindwurm plus a tug captain to go out to the stricken merchant and tow it back to port. Their investigation revealed a race of giant insects intent on feeding off the human crew.