A lost loch Toby, widowed and adrift, is certain of only one thing: as a child she visited a drowned village, filled with precious treasures. Haunted by this impossible memory, she ventures deep into the Scottish Highlands on a quest to find what has been lost. A secret House Ash is consumed with grief after the death of her mother until she stumbles into the mysterious Half-Way House. Here, she finds herself a caretaker of the Mirror Halls: the shadowy realm between the sleeping and the dead. As she learns to walk amongst the Dreamers, she begins to suspect that her discovery of the Halls - and the secrets they conceal - was no accident. As the two women embark on their separate journeys to the truth, they soon find themselves entangled in a mystery far darker and deeper than either could have imagined. Some places are hidden for a reason . . .

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Cailean Steed is based near Glasgow, Scotland. Their debut novel, HOME, was published in 2023 and Cailean was named by The Telegraph as one of the best four debut novelists of 2023. Their writing has also appeared in a number of anthologies and journals on both sides of the Atlantic. Cailean is also an award-winning writer of audio drama, winning the Pen to Print 2021 Audioplay Award for REALBOY, which was later produced with a full cast by Alternative Stories.