Maud Ruthyn, the young, naive heroine, has a governess who is an enigmatic older woman, a liar, bully, and spy, who takes a dark secret with her when she leaves. Maud is after that orphaned and moves in with her Uncle Silas, her father’s inexplicable brother and a man using a scandalous-even murderous-past. She actually is horrified to find her previous governess appears in her life again, within this Gothic Victorian psychological thriller, with a touch of the occult