Jake Whyte is the sole resident of an old farmhouse on an unnamed British island
, a place of ceaseless rains and battering winds. It's just her, her untamed com
panion, Dog, and a flock of sheep. Which is how she wanted it to be. But somethi
ng is coming for the sheep - every few nights it picks one off, leaves it in rag
s. It could be anything. There are foxes in the woods, a strange boy and a stran
ge man, rumours of an obscure, formidable beast. And there is Jake's unknown pas
t, perhaps breaking into the present, a story hidden thousands of miles away and
years ago, in a landscape of different colours and sounds.
