โAn inventively plotted, goose-bumps inducing ghost story.โ โBooklist
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A house with a sinister pastโand a grisly powerย .ย .ย .
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When Michael Flint is asked by American friends to look over an old Shropshire house they have unexpectedly inherited, he is reluctant to leave the quiet of his Oxford study. But when he sees Charect House, its uncanny echoes from the past fascinate himโeven though it has such a sinister reputation that no one has lived there for almost a century. But itโs not until Michael meets the young widow, Nell West, that the menace within the house wakesย .ย .ย .
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โRayne spins eerie yarns within yarns like a latter-day Isak Dinesen or Wilkie Collins.โ โKirkus Reviews
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โA chilling mystery from another era.ย .ย .ย . Once again Rayne delivers.โ โBooklist