It all started with a school trip to the Manor house of Brookdean, an old boarding school in the South of England. It was a trip that started like any other, but quickly turned sour.
Grappling with her eating disorder, and a fall-out with her best friend, things go from bad to worse for Lauren. These things become the least of her worries when she finds herself drawn to a sinister painting in the library, and learns more about the disturbing past of the artist.
Fifteen years later, Lauren is still tormented by what happened on that trip, and decides to go back to Brookdean to confront her past, put things right, and to try and bring the haunting to an end, once and for all.
Some spelling errors that should have been caught by editor aside, this was a straightforward ghoststory. I didn't really feel caught up in it but it was atmospheric at times.