Publisher's Synopsis
"Stephen King meeting Ruth Rendell." - FRANK DELANEY Emma Dickson has a successful City career and a flourishing relationship, but when she sees the advertisement for the sale of Liza's Cottage, a house she remembers from childhood holidays on the rural Essex coast, she is filled with longing. Emma pins her dreams on her move to Mistley. But, once there, she is haunted by nightmares, dreams of the cottage's original owner at the time of a witch-hunt in the seventeenth century. Mike Sinclair, the new Rector of Manningtree and Mistley, is worried by the increasing level of supernatural disturbance in his parish. What has led to the growing sense of unease and violence? Can they work out how to defeat the evil before it destroys them all?
