Living alone in his single bedsit in Marylebone, young Daniel Felton is a young man in trouble.

As his financial problems mount, feeling increasingly threatened and desperate, he needs to get away from London fast. With some helpful assistance from his concerned cousin, he finds a welcome bolt hole down in deepest Cornwall.

At first ‘The Chough Cottage’ in Tregarris seems a welcome sanctuary. However, it’s not too long before events catch up with him, taking a sinister turn for the worse.

Daniel seems to have enemies everywhere, with even the cottage itself seeming to possess malevolent dark secrets of its own...