by Erin Roll

It all started in 1987 when a thief broke into the isolated yet hospitable Lodge of Seclusion in the Swiss Alps. The police arrested him on charges of breaking and entering. But there was really much more to the story. Three years later, in 1990, when British teenagers Graham and Eleanor O’Connor are visiting the lodge with their family, odd things begin to happen. Strangers in heavy overcoats are seen wandering the lodge grounds at night. A map is discovered under the floor in Graham and Eleanor’s room. The lodge’s watchdog becomes drowsy for no apparent reason. These and other happenings are all connected to a mysterious secret about the lodge’s past...