Summer in the Sussex countryside. Jake Rawlins, a young professionalman, is spending his first night in the empty dilapidated house with anovergrown garden he has recently purchased. Disturbed by soundsdownstairs he cautiously investigates and finds a frightened girl in thekitchen. A strange elfin-like girl whose speech and dress come directlyfrom the seventeenth century when the land was split between king andparliament... a girl who purports to be an apprentice to the herbalistNicholas Culpeper... a girl who can talk to things unseen...a girl who will change his life... a girl called Verity Moss.
