This is no typical Georgian novel; Lucida Grey is no Austen heroine. She is dark and troubled, playing out the role she is meant to play with difficulty, with scorn for the suitors who try to tame her.
In rural England, Lucida Grey is the heiress of a vast estate and the palatial Hedworth Hall. You will discover Lucida's world through her account of events. Beware, reader: she holds a terrible secret, and is wrestling with the weight of her guilt. In an era when witchcraft was thought to have been 'debunked', this novel creates a new perspective: something inexplicable by science or nature - a new 'monster' for the Gothic genre.