Laura Purcell

On the Cornish coast, Morvoren House plays host to two young women who - forty years apart - are both faced with sinister tales of fairy possession. Are these merely stories told by the superstitious and ill-educated or is there something dark lurking beneath Morvoren House?

Dorothea Truelove is young, wealthy and beautiful. When Dorothea's charitable work leads her to Oakgate Prison, she finds herself drawn to Ruth Butterham, a teenage seamstress - and self-confessed murderess - who nurses a dark and uncanny secret. As Ruth reveals her disturbing past to Dorothea, a new layer of doubt is cast... Can Ruth be trusted? Is she mad, or a murderer?

Silhouette artist Agnes is struggling to keep her business afloat in Victorian Bath. Making enough money to support her elderly mother and her orphaned nephew Cedric has never been easy, but then one of her clients is murdered shortly after sitting for Agnes, and then another, and another...Desperately seeking an answer, Agnes approaches Pearl, a child spirit medium, hoping that if Pearl can make contact with those who died, they might reveal who killed them. But Agnes and Pearl quickly discover that instead they may have opened the door to something that they can never put back...

Newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband's country estate, The Bridge. She only has her husband's awkward cousin for company. Or so she thinks. For inside her new home lies a locked room, and beyond that door lies a two-hundred-year-old diary and a deeply unsettling painted wooden figure - a Silent Companion - that bears a striking resemblance to Elsie herself..