A mysterious gothic Christmas tale set in a frost-bound Victorian country mansion. When orphaned Seren Rees is given a mysterious package by a strange and frightened man on her way to her new home, she reluctantly takes it with her. But what is in the parcel and who are the Family who must not be spoken of
The author of "Incarceron" and "The Obsidian Mirror" series offers an appealing and headstrong heroine in this Christmas Eve-culminating snow adventure.