A young woman seeks refuge from the horrors of both the real world and her heart, but instead, she becomes trapped with her manor's housekeeper in a deadly web of secrets, obsession, and desire in this loose sapphic retelling of du Maurier's Rebecca.Desperate to flee mistakes in her past, destitution after her brother is called to serve, and the devastation of a London ruined by the Blitz, Aurora hastily marries the wealthy Peter Finch with the hope that she will at last find sanctuary at Webb Hall, his family's isolated Northumberland estate. Such hopes for happiness and peace are short-lived, however, as Aurora struggles to gain the favor of the reclusive and elitist Finch family, who make it clear that her presence is not welcome, and the only semblance of friendship she is capable of finding is in the estate's stern, mysterious housekeeper, Mrs Baines, a woman who has kept watch over Aurora from the dark corners of Webb Hall ever since her arrival as a new bride.It doesn't take long before lingering glances, brushing fingertips, and sharing midnight cups of tea with the older woman inspire within Aurora the resurrection of repressed, forbidden desires for companionship—especially after her in-laws start suddenly dropping dead around her from a bloody, parasitic infection that seems to eat them—and Webb Hall, with all its secrets soaked in blood and rot—from the inside out.As whispers of murder begin to circulate and old, long-buried secrets threaten to resurface, Aurora can't help but fall deeper and deeper into an intoxicating, comforting web of Mrs Baines's own making, until the lines between love and obsession, love and poison, begin to blur.