New novel from the author of }Midnight is a Lonely Place{ and }Lady of Hay{. After Joss has her son, she feels the urge to trace her biological parents. Although she meets several dead ends, she eventually finds out that when her mother died she left Joss Belheddon Hall. It is only when Joss moves in with her husband and son that she begins to realise that there is an unnamed presence at the Hall that will not tolerate male company. Only the daughters of her forebears have survived. The nightmare has just begun...