When Fern Saxby arrived at Bradford to claim her inheritance she simply dismissed the strange feeling of familiarity that she felt, but was it more than deja vu that her betrothed had spoken of?

Perplexed by disturbing dreams which give her a powerful insight into the lives of her descendants, she has to decide whether she actually is the Victorian governess whose life she had been living, or has she the troubled soul of Catherine Radley, the beautiful mute who was accused of witchcraft in Restoration England?