Arresting... [a] tale of madness murder disputed inheritances and hints of the supernatural'
Sunday Times 'Delicious ... dark ... sinister' Susan Stokes-Chapman author of number one
bestseller Pandora 'Thrilling' Emilia Hart author of Sunday Times bestseller Weyward
'Stunning' Lianne Dillsworth author of Theatre of Marvels 'Marvellous' Naomi Kelsey author of
The Burnings Deep in the woods something is stirring... As Catherine Symonds newly appointed
governess of Locksley Abbey arrives in the foothills of the Black Mountains where England
bleeds into Wales she feels apprehensive. It is not the echoing near-empty Abbey with its
skeleton staff that frightens her nor the ancient woods that surround the house or even the
dogs that stalk the grounds baying for blood. It is Catherine herself who fears scrutiny. She
has come here under false pretences determined to secretly investigate the fate of the last
governess at the house her very own sister Emily who is reported to have taken her own life
out in the woods. But despite the reports of her sister's death Catherine finds herself
increasingly drawn to the wood. A place of myth memory and murder she soon finds it will not
give up its secrets easily nor offer sanctuary to those who conceal dark deeds... In the
outstanding new novel from the author of the Sunday Times bestseller The Leviathan an isolated
forest becomes the unsettling beguiling backdrop to a tale of myths memory and murder...
