The Retreat

Part mystery, part ghost story. Set in Wales, it's a glimpse of the rural UK. Perhaps all the more interesting and exotic for an American to read. Though life isn't all that much different in the part of the world where the story takes place, the story is set at a writers retreat recently start at an old home built on the site of an old slate mine. The region is steeped in a superstition that goes back more than a generation. Unraveling the source of that phenomenon lies at the heart of the story.