Some say 'good things come in small packages'. Do bad things come in them as well? Meg and Charlie Ravynne find out the truth of that when they head to England to keep a promise they reluctantly made to their overbearing mother. It was promise that neither sister imagined would have them staying at a ruined abbey perched on a cliff high above the sea and cut off by the changing tides.
Once there, Meg poses as governess to a troubled child while Charlie struggles to resist an inexplicable attraction to the scarred, darkly handsome owner who is haunted by his dead wife...the wife he confessed to killing.
Layer upon layer of dark secrets are woven into the very walls of Brackencliffe Abbey, where troubled restless spirits seek their revenge.