It's May 1922, eight months after events during his first visit to Darkisle shook Jack Glennison's world. Now he's being pulled back there to find out what happened to a young boy who disappeared from the family farm. But any hopes Jack had that this might be a regular missing person case soon evaporate in the unseasonal heat of a Darkisle spring. Why haven't the boy's parents raised the alarm? What is the source of their unexplained wealth? And what links the uncanny events that have happened recently on nearby Slee Top hill?As Jack's investigation takes him across the island, he realises that if he thought he knew just what Darkisle could throw at him, he was sadly mistaken. For Darkisle holds more ancient magical secrets than he ever expected. And some secrets are best left buried.This second book in the Glennison Darkisle Cases delves deeper into the hostile Lovecraftian world of Darkisle, where nothing is quite as it seems....What readers are saying about this "I eagerly look forward to future entries in the series.""Looking forward to further adventures.""Can't wait to read whatever is next. Write quickly, Mr. Drake, please.""Looking forward to more... good stuff!""I look forward to more in the series."