About the book: year / England at the end of the last century, a dilapidated abbey in Devonshire, where a school for girls is located, is the setting of the novel. The young teacher Cordelia Grant, herself fresh out of school in Switzerland, is his heroine. Before leaving Switzerland, she and her three friends experience an exciting romantic event: they go to the vicinity of the school, where, according to legend, you can see your betrothed on the day of the Hunter's Moon. The man the girls meet in the forest mysteriously appears in Cordelia's life and just as mysteriously disappears. Life at the school where she works completely captivates Cordelia, as does her extraordinary relationship with the owner of the abbey, Jason Verringer. Suddenly it turns out that the mysterious adventure in the Swiss forest is getting a continuation - a continuation that threatens with terrible danger..