Winner of the 2015 Daphne du Maurier Award in historical mystery/ suspense Can a curse strike twice in a woman's life? In 1854, Clara Crofton was dismissed from her chambermaid position at Gravesend Hall for falling in love with the younger son of the house. When he died soon after in the Crimean War, she blamed the Gravesend Curse.Now, however, she has the chance to return to the sinister manor in triumph through a marriage of convenience...