When her mother remarried, Caroline decided to joint Francis, a distant cousin and his wife at their home in York. She looked forward to the visit, for thse greatly admired Francis and in fact had had a schoolgirl crush on him for years.

But upon her arrival Caroline found that nothing was quite the same as she'd imagined. She was struck immediately by a sense of foreboding.

Most disturbing of all was the presence of Peter Stanbury, whom Caroline instinctively liked from the moment she met him...