When troubled musical genius Salvador de La Simarde arrives at a Cambridge college, he changes the lives of four women in ways they could never have imagined. For one, Lydia, it means entering the strange, haunted world of the de La Simarde family, a family obsessed with their own tragic history and determined to resurrect their fortunes by the most extraordinary means. A modern tale of Gothic strangeness, this is a thriller of disturbing beauty and awesome power.