The dead of Crowsmoor are light sleepers.
Some say they sleep with one eye open, keeping watch over the restless ones.
When Beth Trevithick is sent as the new parish priest to the scattered and isolated community of Crowsmoor, in the middle of bleak Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, she finds a community entrenched in fear and superstition and belief in an ancient curse born of dark magic.
She gets unexpected help in the form of Mike Travis, ex RAF helicopter pilot. Medically discharged after crashing in war-torn Afghanistan, he turned to his other obsession - paranormal investigation.
Beth soon discovers that the fear and superstition rabid in Crowsmoor are well-founded, and together with Mike, she fights for her own sanity, and her life.