"When Anna Prescott, retreating from a doomed love affair and a high pressure career, discovers the idyllic hamlet of Ashmore it appears to offer the perfect escape. With its pretty cottages, picturesque canal and intriguing inhabitants Stella Herringe, mysteriously lady of the manor fiesty Alice at the Green Man, and handsome, enigmatic John Dawe it seems the ideal place for a new life. hen Anna finds herself adopted by two tiny kittens, Pond Cottage finally starts to feel like home. But dangers lurk beneath Ashmore's apparently tranquil surface, and Anna's arrival sets in motion a heady, nightmarish chain of events. "