The crumbling summerhouse called Wild Fell, soaring above the desolate
shores of Blackmore Island, has weathered the violence of the seasons
for more than a century. Built for his family by a 19th-century
politician of impeccable rectitude, the house has kept its terrible
secrets and its darkness sealed within its walls. For a hundred years,
the townspeople of Alvina have prayed that the darkness inside Wild Fell
would stay there, locked away from the light.
Jameson Browning, a man well acquainted with suffering, has purchased
Wild Fell with the intention of beginning a new life, of letting in the
light. But what waits for him at the house is devoted to its darkness
and guards it jealously. It has been waiting for Jameson his whole
life...or even longer. And now, at long last, it has found him. From the
Sunburst and Aurora Award-nominated author of Enter, Night comes an
unforgettable contemporary ghost story in the classic tradition of Henry
James's The Turn of the Screw.
