About the book: 1992 / Lord Whittenham accepts the invitation of his old school friend Arnold Lewis and decides to spend the weekend at his house. There he meets Arnold's wife, who loves her husband and fears for his sanity, the governess - a family friend, and the frighteningly intelligent, gifted, vicious, sadistically cold-blooded boy - Lewis's son. But after a while, Whittenham begins to feel a sense of power over those living in the house a rejected spirit, the soul of an unburied witch who died on the gallows long ago, and now seeks to possess the living…