Publisher's Synopsis
Summer in the Sussex countryside. Jake Rawlins, a young professional man, is spending his first night in the empty dilapidated house with an overgrown garden he has recently purchased. Disturbed by sounds downstairs he cautiously investigates and finds a frightened girl in the kitchen. A strange elfin-like girl whose speech and dress come directly from the seventeenth century when the land was split between king and parliament... a girl who purports to be an apprentice to the herbalist Nicholas Culpeper... a girl who can talk to things unseen... a girl who will change his life... a girl called Verity Moss.
