Reverend Jane Bruce of the Reformed Church of England is sent to bless Heartsease, the grand country estate desired by one of the great families who now rule a divided Britain . . . but there's something her soldier bodyguard isn't telling her. Booth Hawtrey is investigating the house for the Aurigans, the alien
masters who have recreated him in their .own image and turned him into something not quite human.
David Hawtrey, decadent and hedonistic militiaman, has his own dangerous plans for the house.

Rebecca Champhert is Booth's biographer, David's ex-lover and Jane's unwilling victim. And it's up to her to unravel the story of Heartsease, a story that takes in the history of Britain, the gap between life and death, and the future of the human race.