Canewdon in the 80s saw the murder of a local vulnerable boy in an abandoned old house known as Crippleview. No one, least of all the three bullies who beat the vulnerable child to death, knew that someone had witnessed the taking of the boy's life.
Thirty years later, Ben Collins was drawn to Crippleview House. Faith, his wife had grown up in the area. Ben and Faith made the decision to move there from London with their six-year old daughter, Beth. It is not long before Beth starts communicating with an imaginary friend in the house. Beth vehemently insists that Jacob is real, and that he desperately needs Ben's help. The Collins’ cannot agree on how best to approach Beth’s invented friend and how to deal with her sudden and recurring night terrors. Until Ben experiences them too, after an unsettling encounter with a Mystic Romani...
A lost childhood becomes the lifeline needed for the Collins family and poor Jacob to put the past to rest once and for all. Join the author as she investigates suffering from the perspective of a child. Can justice be brought to bear after a lifetime of lies and deception? Can a ghost bring about that which is required to put himself to rest?