'She didn't know whay she had such a strange feeling that they shouldn't have left her alone - but suddenly she understood what the ghosts were trying to tell her. She could make the Madisons wish they'd never been born.' Bullied and abused by her adoptive family Elinor retreats into the restless, vengefull past that haunts their seventeenth-century home. At first it's a way to escape, but soon she's a prisoner and the price of her freedom is something too terrible to contemplate.