Whistlers Of The Dark

Helen Susan Swift

Summary

Scotland, 1899. When young orphan Ellen Luath starts work as a kitchen maid in a remote farm, she hopes she has left her troubled past behind.
 
But something is not right at Kingsinch farm. Soon, supernatural forces of long past return to haunt Ellen, and she finds herself in a circle of darkness that invades her mind, and threatens her life.
 
As time and place alter, can Ellen keep her sanity, and find her place in an increasingly confusing world?

Available since: 02/07/2022.

Print length: 306 pages.

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