A scorned young woman will have her vengeance, even after death.

This haunting timeslip series explores the history, isolation and oppression of life in a Yorkshire moors village, now resting uneasily beneath the waters of Thruscross Reservoir.

Jennet – orphaned and vulnerable – is twisted by bitterness at the treatment she receives from her neighbours and one family in particular. Centuries later, the descendants of Richard Ramsgill are still not safe from Jennet’s wrath.

Fans of Barbara Erskine, Nicola Cornick, Laura Purcell and Susanna Kearsley will love these gripping historical supernatural thrillers.

Book 1: The Haunting of Thores-Cross

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1776 - Jennet is fifteen and alone. Isolated and vulnerable, she finds safety in the arms of local wool merchant, Richard Ramsgill. Or so she thinks.

Present Day - Emma and Dave’s hopes of a fresh start in their new home are shattered when Emma hears the bells of the old village church. But this is impossible, the village of Thores-Cross and its church were drowned decades ago by the waters of Thruscross Reservoir.

Emma soon learns the dark significance of the bells: Jennet has woken.

Book 2: Cursed - ​A Ghosts of Thores-Cross Short Story

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​Jennet's back. No one's safe.

A skeleton is dug up at the crossing of the ways on Hanging Moor, striking dread into the heart of Old Ma Ramsgill - the elderly matriarch of the village of Thruscross. And with good reason.

The eighteenth-century witch, Jennet, has been woken.

Book 3: JENNET -
​now she wants the children

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1936 – Ma Ramsgill is happy. After the losses of the Great War and its aftermath, she has a family again. Her son, John, is healthy and the image of his father, Jack; Maggie is asleep in her pram; and she’s sure a third will soon join her brood. Then her idyll is shattered by a ferocious animal attack, and she realises that the old tales hold a devastating truth.

Something – someone – stalks these moors; someone long dead, someone with a grudge against her family. Jennet. Ma will not let her take any more Ramsgills.

Present Day – Yorkshire is in the grip of a heatwave, and Thruscross Reservoir has dried up to reveal the remains of the drowned village of Thores-Cross beneath.

Playing in the mud which coats the valley floor, four-year-old Clare Wainwright finds an old inkpot, and can’t wait to show it to her best friend, Louise. But when Louise’s mother, Emma, sees it, her reaction is shocking, and both families are plunged into their worst nightmares.
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Emma knows what the inkpot portends:
Jennet has woken.
Now she wants the children.

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