It's never easy to face the fact that a man you once loved passionately has found the girl of his dreams, as Alice discovers when Joe introduces her to his new girlfriend Ginny.

Then Alice finds an old diary hidden away in Ginny's room and reads about Daniel Holmes and his friend Robert and the mysterious woman who bewitched them both - Rosemary Virginia Ashley, buried in Grantchester churchyard half a century ago - buried but far from forgotten.

As the stories intertwine, past and present are merged into one; Alice comes to realize that her instinctive hatred of Joe's new girlfriend may not just be due to jealousy as she's plunged into a nightmare world of obsession, revenge, seduction