England, 1742. When a deadly epidemic sweeps through a remote North Yorkshire village, its inhabitants fear the return of Mad Edmund: a spectral monk said to haunt the ruins of Munley Priory. Dr William Marlowe, Oxford-educated and a firm believer in Science over the Supernatural, is determined to prove them wrong. Assisted by the ageing Earl of Munley, last male heir of a cursed bloodline, and the gallant Mr Whittaker, suitor to the Earl's beautiful daughter Anne, the young doctor attempts to uncover the secret of Munley Priory, yet the skeletons he unearths threaten to shake the very foundations of his rational world. The full version of this novel is available now on Amazon Kindle, free with Kindle Unlimited.