Nightflower — Mary Mackie

Exiled from her homeland, Bethany came to stay with the grandmother she hardly knew and found her gruff and embittered, nursing some secret grievance against the Trenchard family, who lived at the Hall. Beth didn't wish to upset her grandmother, but events drew her into deep involvement with the Trenchards, in the shape of elderly Felicity, her grandson Daniel and his daughter Debbie. Feeling that they needed her help, she accepted the job they offered even though she was puzzled by the mysteries surrounding them. Not least of the questions was -- what trauma at the Hall had put a young woman into hospital, seriously ill, and brought a child into the woods, in her night-clothes, late on a freezing February night?