Highmoor
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Last published Mon, Dec 10, 2018
Leaving his old life and a disastrous relationship behind him, Matt Heywood takes a job as a caretaker at Highmoor Grange, a manor house museum on the edge of an isolated moorland village in West Yorkshire. Nothing however is as it seems. From the wild vastness of Bleaksyke Moor to the cold waters of Long Moss Tarn a strange breathless quiet seems to hang over the Grange and the village.
When Matt begins a relationship with a local man the quiet is broken. Something that has slept for more than a century wakes once more and history begins to repeat itself.
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