Being a private detective have not been easy for Bright Eyes, but at least it puts food on the table. Barely. When a mystery stallion arrives at her office and offers a case that sounds too good to be true, she can't help but to jump at the chance.

Finding herself in the town of Steadfast, surrounded by swamplands on three sides and the ocean on the fourth, she have to contend with dimwitted locals, mean spirited wildlife and cryptic employers in trying to track down a deranged alchemist.