Alice has returned to her old home town to put her life back in order. 378 Collarmill Road looks like an ordinary house. But sometimes, the world outside the windows isn't the one you expect to see; sometimes you'll turn around and find you're not alone. An old flame of Alice's - John Revell - reluctantly comes to her aid when the house begins to reveal its secrets. The hill on which it sits is a place of legends - of Old Harry, the Beast of Crawbeck; of the Virgin of the Height and the mysterious Red Man - and home to the secrets of the shadowy Arodias Thorne. Thorne's influence seeps up through the ground, infiltrating Alice's new home, and only she and John stand between Arodias and the rest of our world.

Author Biography

Simon Bestwick is the author of Tide of Souls, The Faceless, Hell's Ditch and the serial novel Black Mountain, together with the story collections A Hazy Shade of Winter, Pictures Of The Dark, Let's Drink To The Dead and The Condemned. After having spent most of his life in Manchester, he now lives on the Wirral with a long-suffering girlfriend. When not writing, he goes for walks, watches movies, listens to music and does everything in his power to avoid having to get a proper job.