Rachel's life has never been what you'd call good. She had a dysfunctional upbringing which led to drug problems and mental illness. But now she has a chance to start anew. She's going to leave her old life behind her and maybe, just maybe, she can finally live a normal life.  

It all sounds too good to be true and she's worried it will be. Can she be the perfect country wife? Will she fit into a small town? Will her demons really stay behind her?

It doesn't take long for things to unravel and a new set of questions occupy her mind.

Is the house trying to kill her, is her sister trying to ruin her marriage or is she just going mad. There is only one way to find out and by then it might be too late.

Beth was expecting a family reunion upon her arrival in Brisbane. Leaving the opulence of London for an ex-convict town was a small price she was willing to pay if it meant living with her parents again. Instead, she finds herself in the middle of a literal witch hunt. Her grandfather leads the investigation dragging a reluctant Beth with him.

The accusations focus on the once prosperous Eden River Station. Where once shearers and stockmen roamed, there only remains the mysterious Mrs Richards and a brood of girls that locals say, come and go in the night.

Grandfather is convinced witches don't exist, but in a land filled with the unbelievable, can Beth convince herself?

Beth has passed German Station many times. The Lutheran convent and the cathedral being built behind it, dominate the landscape. They stand off the main road as if judging those that pass. As if knowing everything that happens.

So when the nuns of the convent claim one of their own was killed by a house kobold, Beth isn't convinced. Creatures like that don't exist and even if they did, why would a house kobold travel the region killing seemingly at random?

There has to be a clue, either in the Germanic township or the British colony that surrounds it. Beth just has to find out what it is before more people die.