Patricia Ainger

Jill Bryant's life is ordinary, predictable and, it has to be said, boring, but, when her husband is killed by a terrorist bomb on a bus in Bristol, her safe little world is destroyed. Faced with having to create a life for herself and extremely angry about it, Jill is forced out of her comfortable existence. In the aftermath of coping with the trauma caused by the bomb, she starts hearing voices and, half fearing she is losing her mind, and driven by the need to find out more about what is being said in what she hopes are just ‘dreams’, she travels to Stanebridge, where her family came from originally. Here she discovers a family she never knew existed and becomes involved in solving a family mystery dating from the mid 1800s.