The Distant Hours

A long lost letter sends Edie Burchill on a journey to Milderhust Castle, a great but moldering old house in Kent, home to three elderly and eccentric sisters where her mother had been billeted fifty years before as a child during World War II. Inside the decaying castle, Edie begins to unravel her mother's past. But there are other secrets hidden in the stones of Milderhust. The truth of "the distant hours" has been waiting a long time for someone to find it. In the winding staircases, tower windows, and musty cellars of Milderhurst, Morton pays homage to the classics of gothic fiction and spins an intricate web of suspense and lost love that will haunt the reader long after the last page.