Crying In The Dark

Elinor's father died in a terrible fire. Her mother abandoned her; or so she's been told. She lives with her cousins, but there's no place for her in the Madison family. She used to love looking after little Dekkie. But now he's a big boy of six, he's as nasty and spiteful as the others; and her aunt and uncle never protect her. A holiday in a cottage on the edge of Dartmoor is just another ordeal for Elinor. But then her aunt forces her to sleep in the old four-poster bed, in that dark little room at the end of the windowless passage; where fascinating, terrifying dreams await her. Elinor retreats into the past; into the tragic life of another Elinor, poor Nell the nurserymaid, and finds herself trapped in a nightmare. A three hundred year old murder mystery is about to claim another victim, and there's nothing Elinor can do . . .