In Coberley Hall, there lives a secret.
That secret is ready to claim its next victim.
DI Colin Walker inherits the Jacobean manor house from his wife Lizzie, in whose death he has played a part. Wracked with guilt, but equally determined to forget, he takes up his inheritance only to discover a 17th century chest in the cellars. Inside it are Countess Lucy’s clothes and possessions from the time of the English Civil War. A cryptic note next to her name in the village burial records leads him to question how she, once the house’s chatelaine, died. His wife’s death was the same?
As far as Colin is concerned all love ended with Lizzie, but he has reckoned without the countess’s ‘dead heart’s desire’. But can he trust what he sees and feels? And what of the promise he made Lizzie on her deathbed?