Rina accepts an invite to Aikensthorpe, a country-house hotel with a sinister past.Her fellow guests are an eccentric bunch of magicians and scholars who want to re-enact a séance. Back in 1872, it left one man dead and another mad.Rina won’t be drawn into all of that and is relieved when Detective MacGregor comes to her rescue.But then a blizzard sets in . . . leaving Rina and Mac trapped in the house. Cut off from civilisation.And the first of the bodies is found — a distinguished scholar, smothered in his sleep.Who will be next to die on this dark and stormy night?