Wishing to escape from her pretentious New York fianc, Valla is happy to have an excuse to travel to England, only to discover that her half-brother and his wife have disappeared from their London home leaving their young two children all alone. Finding Victorian London a gloomy and sinister place, haunted by a series of Ripper style murders, Valla takes the children up to Scotland to a bleak family property known as Castle Barebane. In this Gothic ruin, perched on the edge of a cliff, the mystery surrounding her missing brother only gets darker, and more terrifying.
