Village After Dark

When child psychologist Eliza Morgan relocates her teenage children to the remote Cumbrian village of Thornbeck, she knows from the moment they drop their bags that they are not welcome.It's not just the cold shoulders and the icy stares. It's not even the public shunning and the scathing remarks.It's the strange carvings left outside their door.It's the carousel of vehicles passing their home at night, on a road that leads to nowhere.It's the unnatural sounds drifting through their windows from the empty, surrounding forests.All Eliza wants is for her children to have a fresh start. But Thornbeck is a place where tradition and ritual are gods. The people of the village have fallen under the sway of those who maintain the old ways, ancient customs that the modern world has forgotten. Everyone here knows that silence is the price they must pay for safety, a careful blindness to what moves through the village after dark.What hides behind the smokescreen of myths and folklore the locals are so keen to preserve? When Eliza's children are drawn into the heart of it all, she is faced with the same dilemma the villagers faced before her: stay silent for her family's sake, or speak the truth and risk everything.