A chance meeting between two lonely young women on a windswept English moor awakens an all-consuming passion that leads both into a web of increasingly deadly secrets in this seductive historical thriller and love letter to the Gothic classics--with a fresh spin that could only come from the award-winning author of A Haunting on the Hill . It's the 1920s and the English countryside is quiet--which suits Olivia and Tamsin, two young women happy to be overlooked by society. Their relationship is complicated: unruly, working-class Tamsin was brought to Kerrith Manor to be tutored at Olivia's side, but the two quickly have found something more than friendship--a bone-deep recognition that ignites an endless passion. But an unexpected visitor and an unexplained death soon disrupt their idyll, sending both women on the run. They find harbor at Ledges, the dazzling estate of ruthlessly wealthy and endlessly mysterious Rex de Voil. At Ledges, a favorite hang-out for the wealthy, bohemian "bright young things" eager to cut loose far from London's prying eyes, Olivia and Tamsin at last experience the heady power of true freedom.and soon, its deadly cost.