A haunting story of apparitions, a cursed manor house, andtwo generations of women determined to find the truth, by the author from the Ghost Writer

Sell the Hall unseen;burn it to the bottom and plow the planet earth with salt, if you will; but by no means livethere…

Constance Langton grows up in children marked by death,her dad distant, her mom in perpetual mourning for Constance’s sister,the child she lost. Eager to coax her mom back to health, Constancetakes her to a séance; probably about The Séance she’ll find comfort and ease from beyond the grave. Butthe achieving has tragic effects. Constance is remaining alone, her only legacy amysterious bequest that will blight her existence.

So begins this brilliant and gripping book, a darkmystery occur late-Victorian England. It really is an environment of apparitions, ofdisappearances and unnatural phenomena, of betrayal and blackmail andblack-hearted villains-and of murder. Constance’s bequest comes in two parts: ahouse and a secret. Years before, a family group vanished at Wraxford Hall, adecaying mansion in the English countryside with a sinister reputation. Today theHall belongs to Constance, and she must descend in to the darkness on the heartof the Wraxford mystery to find the truth-even at the cost of her life.