The Living and the Dead

Somerset 1894. Nathan Appleby is a pioneering doctor in the emerging science of psychology. When the death of his mother brings Nathan and his wife Charlotte back to the family estate, they must turn the farm's fortunes around or risk ruin. However, when a vulnerable teenage girl is brought to Nathan, seemingly possessed by a terrifying spirit, he cannot leave her to suffer.

When a young boy is disturbed by terrifying visions, Nathan finds himself drawn into another case. Charlie's hallucinations lead him into increasingly dangerous situations and Nathan must find a way to help him, before his imaginary friends do some serious harm. But Nathan's belief in scientific and rational explanations is rocked, as he starts to experience some mysterious visions of his own.

Charlie's death leaves Nathan struggling with unanswerable questions, and rakes up his grief over the death of his son. But it's harvest time and Charlotte needs everyone to pull together to get the harvest in. Yet when a series of freak occurrences threaten the crop, Peter, a disturbed young villager is blamed; and Nathan must step in.

A desperate Nathan tries to contact Clarity's spirit - was her message a blessing or a curse? Recent events have made Nathan doubt everything he once believed, but he's convinced he can get to the bottom of these mysteries. And while Charlotte is holding everything else together on the farm, she is also guarding a secret of her own.

Nathan's increasing obsession with the spirits haunting Shepzoy is taking its toll on Charlotte and the farm. It's All Hallows Eve, and when one of the railway engineers is left so terrified by a haunting vision that the railway suspends all work, Nathan is convinced he must find a way to banish the spirits from Shepzoy.

Shepzoy is a changed place after the horrifying events of All Hallows Eve. Nathan's desperate attempts to contact Gabriel have left him on the edge of madness, and Charlotte is struggling to hold their marriage and the farm together. As the increasingly strange events reach a haunting climax, could Nathan finally unravel the mystery of the woman with the book of light?