Bestselling Black Lace author Kristina Lloyd returns with a Gothic tale of suspense and submission.



A visit to Heddlestone, a remote village on the Yorkshire moors of England, changes librarian Kate Carter's life forever. The place has an eerie yet erotic charge, and when Kate is offered a job in its puppet museum, she leaves London and her boyfriend to take up the position.



Jake, the strange and beautiful curator of the museum and a puppeteer himself, draws her into his secluded, sensual world, and before long she's sharing his bed and discovering a frightening side of love and lust. But Heddlestone is a village with secrets, and Kate soon finds herself seduced into a second dark relationship with Jake's brother, Eddie, and his reckless wife. Split between the two men, Kate moves closer to the truth of Heddlestone, sensing danger but not knowing if the greatest threat comes from ghosts or reality.