Marnie Walker is an interior designer with a passion for boats, in particular her sister’s boat Sally Ann, that she borrowed a year ago for an extended trip on the Grand Union Canal during the summer. While on her travels, Marnie had discovered a derelict farmhouse in a Northamptonshire village.A year later, wishing to set up her own company, she finds herself buying the farm to restore it as an investment and a base, aided and abetted by her sister Beth and her friend, Anne with an ‘e’. But she does not reckon with the tensions underlying the peace and tranquillity of her new home. All is going well until Marnie finds herself embroiled in not one unsolved murder but two, separated by almost 350 years.The old feuds of the Civil War period seem to be fermenting again in a village becoming torn apart by factions. It is only a matter of time before something sinister emerges to shatter the calm of the countryside, and Marnie herself is dragged into the ancient conflict with terrifying results.