Juno and Josephine worry about the usual things: boys, homework, being murdered by the man next door, vampires, vampire-hunters, accidentally emptying the local prison, ancient Egyptian priests cursing their parents and whether it is acceptable to wear a tennis skirt to a funeral. Enter their new friend Mata who introduces them to an underworld London with midget lawyers, multiple murders, renegade police officers and drunken priests. Mata not only shocks them with revelations about her own life but reveals the dark secrets of Juno and Jo's own parents. Now it is down to Juno, Josephine and Mata to stop forces of evil from devouring the earth - if they can overcome their differences, if they're not consumed by flesh eating beetles, and if they're not grounded by their parents.