#UnicornDay - Setting The Scene by Catherine Coe

Happy Unicorn Day!

To celebrate the publication of the last two books in the Unicorns of Blossom Wood series, I am pleased to welcome author, Catherine Coe onto the blog to tell us all about where the inspiration for the settings of the book came from. 

To tell you about the inspiration behind Blossom Wood I first have to go back to the first set of adventures - the Owls of Blossom Wood - and how the three main characters first found themselves magically transported to Blossom Wood. The idea for this first series goes back thirty years - to the garden of my childhood home. At the bottom of that garden were two towering trees that I played under - whether it was spring, summer, autumn or winter. The view from my bedroom was dominated by those huge but friendly trees and when I shut my eyes, I can picture them perfectly - the image brings back wonderful, happy childhood memories. 

In the Great Storm of October 1987, when I was seven years old, I woke up one morning, looked out of the window, and one of the trees was gone. It had crashed down in the hurricane-force winds and suddenly our garden - and my outlook - had changed forever. But I never forgot that tree, and that’s what inspired the tree trunk that Alex, Katie and Eva crawl into in the Owls of Blossom Wood. With the help of a feather they find inside it they are whisked off to the magical Blossom Wood. 

So that was the starting point of the tree, which naturally led to a woodland setting. I wanted the wood to feel quite familiar and not at all scary, so I included lots of recognisable trees and plants, and populated it with (mostly) friendly animals. I wanted to create a setting that I would have wanted to find myself when I was seven - somewhere vast and exciting to explore, somewhere where I could make friends with the animals, and somewhere that felt safe and from where I could always return home. 

I wanted the wood to have lots of interesting areas in which adventures could take place, which is why I included non-woodland parts such as Echo Mountains, Willow Lake and Badger Falls. And I wanted it to feel familiar to readers from all around the world, so I included plants and animals that are found in many different countries, such as badgers, beavers, butterflies, rabbits, foxes, hummingbirds, otters, ducks and even bears (you’d struggle to find all of these in the same wood in real life!).

When creating the Unicorns of Blossom Wood, I wanted the three main characters to get to Blossom Wood using a completely different route to the tree trunk. I did a lot of research on unicorns and found that there have been a number of unicorn sightings in Scotland, which gave me the idea of a Scottish lake (loch). I imagined unicorns roaming the shore of a lake and the hoof-prints that they’d leave. Then I thought - what if the hoof-prints were magical and never disappeared? What if they could transport whoever stood in them to Blossom Wood? This is how I came up with idea that my three main characters - cousins Isabelle, Cora and Lei - could be on holiday in Scotland. On the first day of their trip they are playing beside a lake when they find the hoof-prints that transport them to Blossom Wood. 

Now, whenever I see a set of prints in the ground, I wonder what animal made them and if the prints might have the magical power to transport me somewhere special…

Believe in Magic

When cousins Cora, Isabelle and Lei discover magical hoof prints in the ground, they're whisked away to an amazing land where they're no longer girls … they're unicorns!

But the animals in Blossom Wood don't believe in unicorns! Can the three cousins change their minds - with the help of a little magic?

Join the Unicorns of Blossom Wood on their first adventure!

Festival Time

Isabelle, Lei and Cora are back in Blossom Wood - just in time for a magical festival.

All of the animals are there, except for one. Lizzie the bunny is lost in Echo Mountains!

Can the Unicorns of Blossom Wood use their magic to find her?

Storms and Rainbows

Lei's fed up - she still hasn't found out what her unicorn magic is. Maybe she doesn't have any!

But when Lei, Cora and Isabelle arrive back in Blossom Wood, there's a bigger problem. A summer storm is pouring down and everywhere is being flooded!

Will it ever stop raining - and will Lei find out her magical power?

Best Friends

Loulou the squirrel is organising a talent show in Blossom Wood, and Cora, Lei and Isabelle can't wait.

From tightrope-walking bears and a breakdancing beaver to hula-hooping bunnies and caterpillar jugglers, the woodlanders are busy practising. But why isn't Loulou performing anything herself?

Can the Unicorns of Blossom Wood find out the real problem, and make Loulou truly happy?

To find out more about Catherine Coe: 

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Setting the Scene with Fleur Hitchcock

I'm so pleased to welcome Middle Grade author, Fleur Hitchcock onto the blog today, to tell us all about the settings in her latest book, Murder in Midwinter, which was recently published by Nosy Crow. Keep a look out for a review of the book, coming very soon!

Setting the scene...

At the heart of Murder in Midwinter, is Maya, a London girl, a girl who knows and walks the streets just south of the river, around the Southbank and Borough and just to the east of Waterloo. It’s an area I know well, my niece, Ruby, and her family live there - here’s a lino cut Ruby did of the block of Corporation of London flats that they live in. 

I didn’t actually use these flats, not completely, because I wanted Maya’s family to live over the plumbing supplies shop that they run. That was an amalgamation of a decorator’s shop near Southwark street and Pimlico Plumbers who have a huge sign on the railway line as you approach Waterloo station. 

But what I really used was the Thames, at night in the winter. It’s stunning, all purple and green lights, monumental architecture and silhouettes and reflections - and at one point Maya and her sister Zahra are sitting watching the streams of tourists passing the Globe theatre and Zahra says: “God. London’s beautiful.” She’s speaking for me at that point, because I love to sit on those Thames side benches in the twilight just looking. 

And when Maya needs to flee, I had to find somewhere that was the absolute opposite. Somewhere with no lights, no architecture, nothing. 

A snowy mountain in Wales. 

I have to confess that although I’ve lived in Wales, I’ve never lived in the mountains, I’ve only visited them in the winter, not in the snow, but I have lived in the countryside most of my life and a couple of years back we had some very severe winters, so I used what I remembered of those.

And finally there were the horses. I was a horse kid, but never a very able horse kid, but I do remember one particular pony, black, mean, standing in the snow, biting my best friend on the bum. I used that pony. 100%.

Is that a setting?

I think so. 

Sadly, I have no photos of him. I never thought I’d need it. 

Summary

Sat on the top of a bus days before Christmas, Maya sees a couple arguing violently in the middle of a crowded Regent Street. They see her watching, she looks away, and the woman disappears. Maya goes to the police, who shrug and send her away. Then a body turns up… Now convinced she is a vital witness to a crime, the police send Maya into hiding in rural Wales. She resolves to get to the bottom of the mystery. Then the snow comes and no one can get out. But what if someone can still get in?

Published by Nosy Crow in October 2017

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Setting the Scene with Laura Lam

On the blog today, I'm pleased to welcome Laura Lam who want to tell us about the setting for her adult fiction debut, False Hearts.

False Hearts is set in a near-future San Francisco. I grew up about half an hour outside of the city, but now I live almost six thousand miles away in Scotland. I had loads of fun taking my home stomping grounds and twisting it into my vision of the future. 

San Francisco in the future at first glance seems like a utopia. Everything is recycled, pollution is almost disappeared, and crime and poverty as also anachronistic things left in the past. Yet crime has a way of springing up between the cracks. 

A big influence was this History Channel City of the Future winner for San Francisco. The site describes it as “a full-scale urban system that combines the most innovative green technologies with San Francisco’s unique microclimate and geologic conditions, to produce a compelling vision for the future. Hydro-Net, as the project is known, will bring the lovely city-by-the-bay (which many Inhabitants call home) squarely into the 22nd Century with algae-harvesting towers, geothermal energy ‘mushrooms’, and fog catchers which distill fresh water from San Francisco’s infamous fog.”

Published by Macmillan in June 2016

Summary

Orphan Black meets Inception: Two formerly conjoined sisters are ensnared in a murderous plot involving psychoactive drugs, shared dreaming, organized crime, and a sinister cult. 
Raised in the closed cult of Mana’s Hearth and denied access to modern technology, conjoined sisters Taema and Tila dream of a life beyond the walls of the compound. When the heart they share begins to fail, the twins escape to San Francisco, where they are surgically separated and given new artificial hearts. From then on they pursue lives beyond anything they could have previously imagined.
Ten years later, Tila returns one night to the twins’ home in the city, terrified and covered in blood, just before the police arrive and arrest her for murder—the first homicide by a civilian in decades. Tila is suspected of involvement with the Ratel, a powerful crime syndicate that deals in the flow of Zeal, a drug that allows violent minds to enact their darkest desires in a terrifying dreamscape. Taema is given a proposition: go undercover as her sister and perhaps save her twin’s life. But during her investigation Taema discovers disturbing links between the twins’ past and their present. Once unable to keep anything from each other, the sisters now discover the true cost of secrets.

To find out more about Laura Lam:

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Setting The Scene with Ryan Graudin - Wolf By Wolf

I am so pleased to welcome author, Ryan Graudin, on to blog. In 2014, I reviewed Ryan's debut novel, The Walled City and absolutely loved it. I am so excited that she has a new novel out and I can't wait to read it too! Ryan is known for her amazing and extremely details settings, so she is here today to talk about her setting for Wolf By Wolf. 

The year is 1956 and the Axis Powers rule the Eurafrasia tri-continent. To celebrate their victory they hold a televised cross-continental motorcycle race every year. This Axis Tour spans over 20,000 kilometers from Germania (old Berlin) to Tokyo. Yael, the main character, must use her skinshifting abilities to pose as former racer Adele Wolfe and enter the race. Her mission? Win the Axis Tour, gain an audience with the reclusive Adolf Hitler and kill him.

Due to the nature of the motorcycle race, WOLF BY WOLF has an overabundance of settings to choose from. Post-war Prague, the ruins of Rome, the sweeping deserts of northern Africa, a mountainous middle east, jungles and rice paddies…. There are far too many landscapes to feature in a single post!

But fear not, I’ve chosen one! It is the landscape from Chapter 28, when Yael and the other racers are completing the leg from Hanoi to Shanghai through what is our southeast China. A main staple of that chapter is the Li River, where the racers must complete a ferry crossing on a bamboo raft.

A large part of this chapter was inspired by a trip I took a couple of years ago. China is such a gorgeous country, with such diverse scenery, but one of the most beautiful places of our trip was Yangshuo, a town right by the Li River. Some of you might recognize its landscape from the 2006 movie The Painted Veil—its main feature is its dramatic karst mountains. Here’s how I describe it in WOLF BY WOLF:

“The sun climbed high into a clouding sky, and the landscape changed, transforming into something out of a fair tale. Dramatic, sudden mountains jutted from waterlogged fields. Like the fingers of an underground giant, hungry for sky. Hundreds of tree-capped heights and hundreds of valleys braided with rivers and mists, rice paddies and lean-tos. Ancient tombs hugged the road—less dramatic mounds of earth marked by poetic stones, overgrown with tattered offerings of money and liquor bottles.” - (WOLF BY WOLF, pg 299)

My husband and I spent several days soaking up this countryside. (I even worked on my rough draft of WOLF BY WOLF while I was there!) One of our most interesting experiences here, which later became a staple in the novel, was the ride we took on the bamboo raft. These days, a lot of them are made with PVC pipes meant to look like bamboo, but I did see a few of the genuine article. They’re incredibly buoyant, but rather narrow, which made for a perfectly precarious river-crossing scene in the book.

This is a perfect example of how traveling inspires me. If I’d never gone to Yangshuo, I never would have realized how I could incorporate the ferry crossing (which becomes rather important) into WOLF BY WOLF. Whether you’re working on a novel or not, I highly recommend visiting this relaxing town. Its beauty is unique and poignant. 

I'm in awe of the places Ryan has seen. These views are stunning!

Published by Orion Children's Books in November 2015

Summary

Over ten years since the Nazis won the war, 18 yr old Yael has one mission: to kill Hitler - a captivating second novel from Walled City author, Ryan Graudin.

Once upon a different time, there was a girl who lived in a kingdom of death. Wolves howled up her arm. A whole pack of them-made of tattoo ink and pain, memory and loss. It was the only thing about her that ever stayed the same.Her story begins on a train. 

Germania, 1956. Over ten years since the Nazis won the war. 18-year-old Yael is part of the resistance, and she has just one mission: to kill Hitler.

But first she's got to get close enough to him to do it. 

Experimented on during her time at Auschwitz, Yael has the unique ability to change her appearance at will. The only part of her which always remains are the five tattooed wolves on her arm; one for each of the people she's lost. Using her abilities, she must transform into Adele Wolfe, Germany's most famous female rider and winner of the legendary Axis Tour; an epic long distance motorcycle race from Berlin to Tokyo, where only the strongest (and wiliest) riders survive. If she can win this, she will be able to get close enough to kill the Fuhrer and change history forever.

But with other riders sabotaging her chances at every turn, Yael's mission won't be easy. . .

To find out more about Ryan Graudin:

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Setting The Scene with Lucy Inglis

A little later than hoped, but still fabulous. I am so pleased to welcome Lucy Inglis on the blog to talk about the setting for her YA romance, Crow Mountain as part of the How Do You Like Your Romance blog tour.

When I first had the idea for Crow Mountain, I knew I wanted it to be ‘a wilderness book’, set on the American Frontier in the nineteenth century. Specifically, I wanted to write about the near-extinction of the American Plains Bison over a twenty year period. The bison, commonly referred to as the buffalo, numbered around 25 million in 1869, but only 541 in 1889. The horror of such a slaughter had so many implications, particularly for the Native American people who used the buffalo as their main source of food and clothing. I read a lot about how the last buffalo were saved and preserved on ranches, and how the arrival of so many white hunters changed the American West. The research led me time and again back to Montana. 

Montana also worked brilliantly in terms of plot, as it is home to many different First Nation tribes, and has been a key state in reintroducing buffalo to the wild. I began to read everything I could about the state, and its history, and what goes on there now, even down to following high school football (one of the main protagonists, Cal, played as a quarterback when at school) and reading about local restaurants on Tripadvisor. I read about settler marriages. And divorces. The beautiful alpine wilderness of Montana, and in particular the Glacier National Park and St Mary Lake. 

I read about the railroads. The American Civil War. The terrible subjugation of the Native American people as the US government fought a hypocritical war to free the Southern slaves. And the extermination of millions of buffalo.

Then in February last year I visited an Amish store in Ohio. I was lecturing in Cleveland and we were taking a day out to visit a wonderful obstetrician serving the Amish community (whose teenage son had built, no joke, a full size trebuchet on their farm out of telegraph poles, dead deer and flaming oil drums a speciality) and eat a truly excellent Amish hot dog. My host Jim went to the restroom so I loitered, looking at the frying pans, washtubs, wood-fired stoves and gasoline powered refrigerators. There were also cute but complicated oil lanterns, ingenious wooden spoons, spatulas with hook handles for pulling out hot tins and a wall of pretty cookie cutters in the shape of every state. I picked up Montana immediately. An automatic reaction. Two dollars, I thought, who cares. Then I hesitated. Why should I clutter my already crammed kitchen drawer with it? Because of a lovely girl with a now outdated tattoo? Because since then I’ve read dozens of academic articles and books

on people who abandoned everything they knew to make a new life on the edge of a new world? The horror of exterminating a species? I put it back. Yet as I looked at it, I saw my characters. Nate, Emily (the 1867 characters), and Hope, Cal (the present day characters). I knew what they looked like and who they were and the story that had been nothing more than a few strands of daydream was almost written for me. My host returned. I grabbed Montana and paid. Arriving home, I began to search for images from both the nineteenth century state, and the modern one to build a storyboard. (I always do this for fiction, on a jigsaw puzzle board. They’re full of photos of ‘the cast’, as well as settings and character notes.) I mentioned to my brilliant friend Rob Baker, @robnitm, that I was writing a book set in Montana and he sent me lots of images he’d taken when filming a documentary out there, such as this one. 

Nate is a pioneer, horse-trader and veteran of the American Civil War. He grew up in an Indian village after his mother married into the tribe. He is a real loner, and at first, not particularly friendly to the English girl, Emily, he rescues from an accident. I settled on Upper St Mary Lake in the Glacier National Park for Nate’s home, and spent a lot of time on cabinporn.com finding images of the most remote and magical cabins in the US so that I would have a definite idea of the space both couples end up inhabiting. 

My ‘view from the cabin’ on Upper St Mary Lake. 

I’m happy so many people feel I’ve captured Montana, both then and now. Immersing myself in the state meant that when my characters came, I felt I could do them justice. Crow Mountain is a pair of love stories featuring utterly mismatched characters: two English girls who fall in love with not only Americans, but Montana itself, its wildness and sometimes its shabby eccentricity!

Thanks Lucy for a fabulous post. If that doesn't have you rushing out to buy the book, then check out the blurb below. 

Summary

While on holiday in Montana, Hope meets local boy Cal Crow, a ranch hand. Caught in a freak accident, the two of them take shelter in a mountain cabin where Hope makes a strange discovery. More than a hundred years earlier, another English girl met a similar fate. Her rescuer: a horse-trader called Nate. 

In this wild place, both girls learn what it means to survive and to fall in love, neither knowing that their fates are intimately entwined.

To find out more about Lucy Inglis:

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Setting the Scene with Jenny McLachlan

Jenny Mclachlan is fast becoming one of my favourite authors. If you haven't read one of her books, you are seriously missing out. So I am so pleased she agreed to come on the blog today, to talk about the setting for her new book, Sunkissed, which is published today!!

Sunkissed, the third book in my Ladybird series for teens, is set on an idyllic Swedish island called Stråla. Fifteen-year-old Kat is sent there - kicking and screaming - to spend the summer with her auntie Frida. Stråla is based very closely on Grinda, a real and very beautiful island in the Stockholm archipelago. I visited Grinda with my mum and everything Kat hates about the island, I loved: it’s tiny, isolated and uncommercial. As Kat says in a letter to her friend: This island I’m staying on is smaller than Bluewater…also it has 299 fewer shops than Bluewater. Let me make this clear: it has ONE shop. 

Here is a picture of Grinda’s one shop. It sold amazing cinnamon buns, something Kat does appreciate about the island: 

Kat loves three things: her friends, shopping and technology. She is taken away from all these things on Stråla. This is why she writes a letter to her friends, (a letter…what’s that??) I decided to make the island wi-fi and phone-reception free. From a writer’s point of view this is great - instant communication really ruins plotlines - but for Kat it is torture. Luckily for Kat, occasional reception is available on a tiny rock out in the sea. 

When I went on my research trip, I swam out to a rock to see what it felt like to sit alone in the middle of the ocean. Mainly it felt warm and crusty - there was a lot of lichen and bird poo on the rock - but it also made me feel very small in the universe. When this picture was taken I was on my way back and I’m pulling a funny face because an enormous fish had brushed against me. It’s fair to say I freaked out. It may look like I’m about three yards from the shore, but Mum’s camera has a powerful zoom (honest!) 

Luckily, Kat meets other teenagers on the island and they spend a lot of time hanging out at a café sitting around a rock (there are a lot of important rocks in Sunkissed). The café is based on Grinda’s café where the rocks that stick up through the deck are used as impractical tables. When this photo was taken the café was closed, but they had left all the scatter cushions out. How very Swedish. 

In my favourite chapter of Sunkissed, Kat kayaks to a deserted island with a boy called Leo. This chapter was inspired by a visit I made to Sweden in my twenties with my brother and sister. We stayed with a friend, Jakob and he took us out for the day on his boat. We had a picnic on an island and I was absolutely thrilled by the thought that we were the only people there. Jakob swam out to a cliff and leapt off it, and if you look closely at the picture you can see him flying through the air. Teenagers in the UK seem to have very little freedom; parents know where they are every minute of the day and there aren’t many opportunities for climbing cliffs and jumping off them. Kat has the chance to take the plunge and it’s a life-changing moment for her. 

I like giving my narrators hobbies and Kat runs. She runs all over Stråla on soft pine-scented paths through flashes of sunlight. Stråla is essentially Moomin valley without the large-nosed creatures. 

Like Grinda, Stråla is car-free and can only be reached by boat. Here’s a photo I took as I left Grinda. Skin salty from swimming in the sea and nails chipped from scrambling over rocks, I watched the island disappear in a flash of sunlight. It’s a magical place and I can’t wait to share it with my readers in Sunkissed. 

What a gorgeous post. Thank you Jenny! I'm sure everyone will definitely want to read Sunkissed now.

Sunkissed is published by Bloomsbury and available to buy today!!!!

Summary

Kat can't believe her family are sending her to Sweden for the summer. But without her friends, or even a phone signal, can Kat make it on her own?

In a land of saunas, nudity and summer sun, Kat soon realises she has nowhere to hide. It's time to embrace who she really is, underneath what she's been thinking people want her to be. Especially if she's going to win the heart of mega fit Swede Leo! Can Kat find her inner strength and prove she's got what it takes?

Kat soon finds that when you're surrounded by phosphorescence and wonder it's easy to sparkle. Or maybe that's what happens when you fall in love . Or maybe you only shine when you're true to yourself. 

To find out more about Jenny Maclachlan: 

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Setting The Scene with Claire McFall

As part of a blog tour, I'm pleased to welcome Claire McFall onto the blog to tell us about the settings she used for her new YA novel, Black Cairn Point.

Black Cairn Point is a YA thriller-horror. In it Heather and several of her friends take a camping trip that goes horribly wrong when they are set upon by something unnatural and evil. 

Black Cairn Point. Sounds really creepy doesn’t it? It wasn’t actually the original title of the book (I’d tentatively called it “The Petersen Sessions” but my agent didn’t like that), but looking back, it fits much better because the novel really is all about the place. 

And it is based on a real place: Ardwell Bay in Dumfries and Galloway:

Write what you know is a time-old piece of advice for budding authors, and it’s one I like to stick by, especially when it comes to setting. Ardwell Bay (aka Black Cairn Point) was the site of my one (and only) camping trip with my hubby back when he was just “the boyfriend”. The boyfriend stuck; camping, not so much. But the place made a big impression on me, even if I wasn’t keen on sleeping in a tent and going to the loo crouched between two rocks. Firstly, it was the sheer sense of isolation:

In the novel, Heather talks about the beach being “completely inaccessible, completely protected. Completely isolated.” And it really is. The road down is just as I describe it in the book - a one lane dirt track scything down the hill. The hills hug the beach, but the effect is that they feel almost like they’re hunching over you, hiding you from view. Then there’s the fact that there’s not a house for miles. Okay, you can see one wee house in the pic, but the roads are so squirrelly that, unless you can scale sheer cliffs (which I can’t), you are good and on your own down there. In the sunshine, that feels great, your own private beach… but when the clouds roll over and the wind picks up, it’s a creepy place. 

Now, I’m not scared of the dark, but after the sun sets (sorry, have to insert a pic in here just because it’s GORGEOUS)

Then it gets dark. And I mean really dark. Our first night there, the sky was clear, and between the shining moon and the incredibly bright stars (wish I’d had a camera good enough to take a picture of that!) it wasn’t too bad. The sand was a lovely pale, almost white colour and it glowed silvery in the moonlight. It was almost romantic… except for the peeing among the rocks. The next night, however, it was cloudy. Of course it was, it’s Scotland. But that cloud cover took ALL THE LIGHT from the sky… and there weren’t any streetlight, blazing windows or even car headlights. It. Was. Dark. 

We lit a campfire - because it was also freezing (Scotland, remember) - and that was when I discovered the funny thing about fires: although you can see them from miles and miles away, when you’re by the fire, looking out, the light really doesn’t go very far. In fact, the brightness of the flames actually makes the surrounding landscape even darker. Lots of things go bump in the night, and when you’re the only people on the beach, let me tell you that’s scary!

If I haven’t yet convinced you that Black Cairn Point is a terrifying place to be, let’s talk about the ruins. 

Hubby reliably informs me (and he’s an archaeologist, so he’d know) that the ruins directly above Ardwell Bay are in fact from a broch (a round tower thingy from the Iron Age period), but just on the next hill is a cairn. It’s a burial mound made of rocks. So, kind of like a mini graveyard. Freaked out yet? Well, in local legends cairns have a long history of having spirits tied to them. Dead kings, the Fae… stuff like that. In the immortal words of Chunk from “The Goonies” (if you’ve never seen that movie you should, it’s a CLASSIC!), these cairns things weird me out “because they might have daddy longlegs and um... dead things, Mikey. DEAD THINGS!”

An isolated beach. Pitch black at night. A grave lurking ominously on the hills above. Perfect place for a horror story, right? 

But you see why I never went camping again…

Black Cairn Point was published this week (August 2015) by Hot Key Books.

Summary

Two survivors, one terrible truth.

Heather agrees to a group camping holiday with Dougie and his friends because she's desperate to get closer to him. But when the two of them disturb a pagan burial site above the beach, she becomes certain that they have woken a malevolent spirit. Something is alive out there in the pitch-black dark, and it is planning to wreak deadly revenge. 

One year later Heather knows that she was very lucky to escape Black Cairn Point but she is still waiting for Dougie to wake from his coma. If he doesn't, how will she prove her sanity, and her innocence?

To find out more about Claire McFall:

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