The year is 1841 and Grayson Sherbrooke, a popular author of gothic paranormal mysteries, lives on the coast of Northern England with his four-year-old-son, Pip. He's asked by a neighboring little girl, P.C., to come to Wolffe Hall because something terrible is threatening her and her mother. She describes the house shaking with terrifying tremors and a huge black hole she calls the Abyss appearing in the entrance hall. She also knows the menace involves...

From Regency England to the exotic West Indies, the romantic saga unfolds of a hot-tempered earl and his witty, beautiful, island-born cousin, Diana Savarol, and their unserverable bond.--

Much like the hero of his frightening gothic adventure stories, well-known English author Grayson Sherbrooke has his own share of run-ins with peculiar supernatural beings, both good and evil. From his home on the northern coast of England, Sherbrooke leaps into these otherworldly mysteries to find the truth with the help of his son, Pip; his beautiful neighbor, Miranda, and her daughter, P. C.; and an orphan named Barnaby.

Zarabeth is chosen by Magnus Haraldsson, a handsome Viking on a trading visit to York, to be his wife. But her stepfather is eaten up with desire for Zarabeth and will not see her wed to another -- Book flap.