My feet refused to move. I was going to die a horrible death right here, right now, because I could not run.From the other side of the fire, a huge dark shape slunk forward. I gasped in smoke and hacked it out. The shape from my nightmares. I watched as its mouth opened, lips peeled back over teeth as long as my fingers. The beast snarled and sprang... A year after breaking the Pattern, Emlynn no longer fights her gift. She's become adept at sending the Dead on to rest. Perhaps a little too good - her overconfidence is about to lead to a fall...Sent to investigate reports of a haunting, Emlynn finds herself facing a crushing embarrassment, and worse, a deep betrayal. Deciding it's time to leave the supernatural alone for a while, she travels to Dorset to stay with her childhood best friend, Beth. The Milton Abbey festival of music should take her mind off everything; Ghosts, betrayals and disappointments. Except Beth has changed. She's definitely running with a new crowd - a cooler, dangerous group whose leader, Rhys, has an unhealthy interest in Emlynn. As if that isn't enough, Emlynn's violin tutor turns out to be a young man she used to know. Lucas has definitely changed - hostile, volatile and rude, but also intense and disturbingly compelling. That's one mystery Emlynn can't leave alone. Torn between her connection with Beth's troubled younger sister and the terrifying black beast that stalks Emlynn in her dreams, there's no rest for the weary psychic. Facing the reality of what Beth is mixed up in, Emlynn may have finally picked a fight she cannot win...