Anna Fort and her husband Charles, he of Forteana fame, are invited to a rich man's island where Charles is to spend the summer wrting his book. Finding themselves qurantined with another married couple before being allowed to stay in the house, they try to make the best of it. Three girls have gone missing and there are lights in the woods. Anna is haunted by memories of a long-gone friend as well as her own seemingly anomalous encounter with a rain of blood, and revisited by the voice of her childhood toy crow, King Nyx. Something is very wrong on the island, and it may be connected to Anna's own past in ways that should be impossible. 

A subtle, intriguing thriller about women, and the men who take advantage of them to exercise their own brilliance.