When six-year-old Jerome Talbot is abducted by the mysterious 'Lady' his disappearance sparks a series of events that will plunge him and his mother into a nightmare of possession and psychic terror from which there seems no escape. During two sweltering summer weeks in an idyllic Sussex cathedral town, police officer Rose Platt and child psychiatrist Sharif Mohammed find themselves fighting for the boy's sanity and their lives during an overwhelming assault by ancient magic seeking bloody revenge. A promise has been broken and powerful dark spirits have risen to protect a secret path that crosses the time worn landscape. The town must pay the price.