From the three million copy bestselling author of Lady of Hay comes the big new novel by the bestselling author of WHISPERS IN THE SAND is a gripping tale of witchcraft & romance past & present as her modern-day characters are caught up in a battle that has been raging for hundreds of years. The parish of Manningtree & Mistley has a dark history. In 1644 with England in the grip of a Puritan government Matthew Hopkins Cromwells Witchfinder General tortured scores of women there. & today the spirits of Hopkins & his victims haunt the old shop in the High Street they say. Emma Dickson has given up her high-flying career but now she is being driven half-mad by visions of the past & the Witchfinders victims. In despair Emma turns to the local rector for help but he too is in the grip of something inexplicable
- something which threatens Emma. & as the feast of Halloween approaches Emma is caught up in a struggle that has been raging for centuries. Can she stop the forces unleashed from the past wreaking their devastation in the present?