David Blacklaw and Hugh Fraser were celebrities in the days before it became a dirty word. They had done it all, in grand style-until the mysterious scandal that brought their fame crashing to an end. Now Fraser's grandson, John, has come to the crumbling Blacklaw ancestral home on the Scottish moors, looking for answers, in search of a story that will make his career.

But what he finds is much more than a cover-up of a scandalous secret. A brooding terror lurks in the shadows of Black law House, something that skitters in the eaves and rustles in the pages of the books in the old library-a dark entity that whispers in John's ear, seducing and promising. Meanwhile, outside in the mist, something walks the fog-bound moors, getting ever closer to the house even as Jon closes in on the secret.

The race is on for John to find the answer and reap the prize, before the horror takes root in his soul.