Finding herself homeless and orphaned by a plague, French peasant-girl Zanette thought she'd had her share of tragedy. Given an idyllic girlhood by her grandparents, surely her troubles are behind her. Yet tragedy strikes afresh in a way that changes her forever; changes she cannot forever ignore and can only begin to explore. Victim after victim soon finds out what she is. Zanette cuts a wake of fear and suspicion as rumours of a new curse spread fear and suspicion throughout the French countryside until, once again, she finds herself homeless and alone. Zanette takes ship to Dover where she meets Jonathan Walker, a charming gentleman. In Britain she hopes to bury her past and live a normal life as a wife, even a mother. Will those who live or travel within stalking distance of her new home find that their innocence can end in bloody death, too?