Jakes father disappears while working on mysterious experiments with the obsessive reclusive Oberon Venn. Jake is convinced Venn has murdered him. But the truth he finds at the snow-bound Wintercombe Abbey is far stranger.. . The experiments concerned a black mirror which is a portal to both the past & the future. Venn is not alone in wanting to use its powers. Strangers begin gathering in & around Venns estate: Sarah
- a runaway who appears out of nowhere & is clearly not what she says Maskelyne
- who claims the mirror was stolen from him in some past century. There are others a product of the mirrors power to twist time. & a tribe of elemental beings surround this isolated estate fey cold untrustworthy & filled with hate for humans. But of them all Jake is hell-bent on using the mirror to get to the truth. Whatever the cost he must learn what really happened to his father.