Publisher's Synopsis
Tom has just moved to an eerily tall house known as the Tall Man's House. Tom hears a boy in the cellar offering a 'special' acorn to a rat, captain rat, whom he begs to find the key to his leg-iron. The cellar is empty but Tom knows that the boy is real and he's convinced that he is trapped in a brutal past and the Tall Man's prisoner. Each time he tries to help the boy, the Tall Man who haunts the house becomes more menacing. The village is alive with stories about the Tall Man, dead two hundred years but still fiercely alive whenever Tom slips into the past that haunts the Tall Man's house. Can Tom and Captain Rat save the boy in the cellar?
