Fortune Blyth suffered the loss of a secret child when she was sixteen and vowed never to let another man touch her. Ten years later she is content with Ma and her beloved birds.
But when witch hunters come to town it isn’t long before fingers are pointed at the spinster and she is forced to choose; stay and hang, or marry a man who can offer her safety far from home. She chooses marriage.
Her husband’s island home is not the safe haven she expected, with a surly housekeeper and an eccentric mother-in-law to contend with. And there is something else; secrets hiding in the walls, demons creeping in her nightmares and something sinister in the concealed tunnels below the house. Perhaps she would have been better off hanging after all…
Jennifer Kennedy was born and raised in Liverpool, England. Her love of reading started young and by age ten was immersed in the contrasting worlds of the Brontës and Stephen King. She went on to study English Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University. Drawn to the supernatural and mysterious it was inevitable that she would go on to write gothic fiction. She dreams of living in a haunted mansion on the moors, but until then is content in her tiny house with her son and their extremely black cat.
