"Then she sees it all - sees it all behind her closed lids and through the red of her own blood. Her heart hammering, she is shaken by a skin crawling terror. She dare not open her eyes again. For will she see now or see then?"
"When the Armitages move to the long deserted old Rectory in Hulversham, Suffolk, their fourteen-year-old daughter, Wren, knows that something terrible happened in the past which it is now her duty to uncover."