What if you were not who you thought you were, and in another place and time?
1666: The Black Death stalks a tiny village in Middle England, laying waste the population
1966: Love lorn art student, Simon Beaumont, goes on walkabout in the Pennine Mountains to die.
Instead, he discovers a ruined garden in a remote village haunted by ghosts, especially that of a beautiful girl in a long white dress who seems know him.
Simon meets an enigmatic woman, Lara, who lives in a ruined castle at the edge of the village. She initiates Simon into the history of the village and the story of a mysterious girl, Suzanne de Montmorency, who stayed in the village when everyone else had fled the arrival of the Black Death. Why did she stay? And what is the mystery of a macabre wedding portrait sent from France just before the plague? ANd why Suzanne's soul not been able to rest for three hundred years?