Ursula Wadden runs a successful pub in Dulwich, south-east London. On the surface, she has a lot to be happy with: she's young, good-looking, has close friends and makes a reasonable living. But mystery and darkness shroud her past; she has never known her mother and her strange, taciturn, one-eyed father disappeared when she was a girl. There's also her own peculiar secret which has prevented her from ever having a lover - something she intends to change, and in the process uncover the enigma of her ancestry while opening up terrifying vistas of possibility as she becomes a new link in an ancient chain of heredity...
Ursula Wadden runs a successful pub in Dulwich, south-east London. On the surface, she has a lot to be happy with: she's young, good-looking, has close friends and makes a reasonable living. But mystery and darkness shroud her past; she has never known her mother and her strange, taciturn, one-eyed father disappeared when she was a girl. There's also her own peculiar secret which has prevented her from ever having a lover - something she intends to change, and in the process uncover the enigma of her ancestry while opening up terrifying vistas of possibility as she becomes a new link in an ancient chain of heredity...