The winter's child - Cassandra Parkin

'Fresh. Original. Spell-binding.' Jane Corry

'.a wonderful writer with a painterly eye for detail... Thereare some brilliant twists.' Wendy Holden, Daily Mail

Five years ago, Susannah Harper's son Joel went missing withouttrace. Bereft of her son and then of her husband John, Susannah tries to acceptthat she may never know for certain what has happened to her lost loved ones.She has rebuilt her life around a simple selfless mission: to help others who,like her, must learn to live without hope.

But then, on the last night of Hull Fair, a fortune-teller makesan eerie prediction. Susannah is told that this Christmas Eve, Joel willfinally come back to her.

As her carefully-constructed life begins to unravel, Susannah isdrawn into a world of psychics and charlatans, half-truths and hauntings,friendships and betrayals, forcing her to confront the buried truths of herfamily's past, where nothing and no one are quite as they seem.

CassandraParkin brings us a ghostly winter mystery with a modern gothic flavor. A dark taleof twisted love, marriage, family secrets and hauntings, Parkin keeps usguessing throughout.