The Woman in BlackArthur Kipps, a junior solicitor, is summoned to attend the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow, the sole inhabitant of Eel Marsh House. The house stands at the end of a causeway, wreathed in fog and mystery, but it is not until he glimpses a wasted young woman, dressed all in black, at the funeral, that a creeping sense of unease begins to take hold, a feeling deepened by the reluctance of the locals to talk of the woman in black and her terrible purpose.

They get on well

and deserving of forgiveness

He preempts the authorities and leaves his job

Fighting for survival in a war with no rules

BURY YOUR SECRET OR DIE FOR IT

savage wilderness

Just exactly what sort of hero will the boy need

his true passion is to be found in the saddle on a Thoroughbred

The line between love and hate is very thin

powerful read

and whether to fight or run

she was an eighteen-year-old college freshman from Sweetgum