The new romantic thriller from a master storyteller - Summoned home to attend her beloved mother's sickbed, Tamsin Hardy's homecoming is even more eventful than she had feared.
Mammy is found bludgeoned almost to death.
When Isobel Penrose, mistress of Trevarrah House, offers her a post as companion, Tamsin accepts, but she feels instinctively uneasy about the house and its inhabitants, despite her feelings of attraction towards Isobel's brother Adam, recently returned from the war in America .