Nathan Rothwell was a famous crime fiction writer back in the '80s, whose hedonistic lifestyle spiralled him into a near breakdown by the death of his parents. But his deep obsession for a beauty painted by John Constable, turns his life upside down; for he was about to discover a secret that would inevitably see him fall in love with her 200-year-old ghost, and have their lives once more torn apart by vengeance... and murder.
To absolve himself of his guilt, the famous crime author, Nathan Rothwell, had recorded an admission on his smartphone before his death, of what really took place on the night his sister and Lytefoot hall's estate manager were murdered. On it, he told of his compulsion for the ghost of the beautiful heiress, Lady Arabella Lytefoot. Also he engrained his natural fear for a dark entity, so twisted by jealousy and rage because of Nathan's love for Arabella, that he could reach out and harm those in the material world. A year later, the phone, which was never wiped after forensics, falls into the hands of a 21-year-old trainee police officer, Steven Runcombe, after a 8-month-long investigation had mistakenly concluded that Nathan Rothwell, even in death, was still guilty of the crimes of murder. Heeding Nathan's ghostly tale gave Steve a curious thirst for the supernatural, especially after also discovering that his close friend, Rob Slatterley, had witnessed the spectre of his girlfriend, not long after her funeral.Armed with borrowed ghost hunting equipment and the dead author's smartphone, Steve, Rob, along with two other reluctant friends, head over to Lytefoot Park to seek the truth about the afterlife, while trying to uncover more of Nathan Rothwell's story.However, what they didn't envisage, was the danger they'd put themselves in the minute they entered the quaint Suffolk village of Thydon le Marsh encircled by Lytefoot's encompassing 400-acre estate. And it would seem that the more they discovered, the more the park and village seemed a foreboding place to the four youngsters. A place where the shades of the past reveal themselves in unusual ways, and where reality had ceased to exist long ago.
To Anthony Bradbury, the idea of being given a second chance to change the past was incredible, to say the least. But for the experienced 'Time Agent' who sent him back to 1973, the scenario had fast become a nightmare, in which time itself revealed how afflictive it could be in the most obscure way...?
