Nine Steps From the Tree

Set in the Sheffield area on the edge of Ecclesall woods, would you go down to the woods today? If you like a mystery and a tale with twists, a real page-turner, this is for you. Spoilt and demanding, Amy, an only child exploring her sexual maturity at a tender age, bites off more than she can chew when she argues with her fiancé over her mother’s best friend whom she thinks is having an affair with her father. Breaking off their engagement in a tantrum, something she does not want to do as marriage will get her away from home, she dashes off into the wood and is never seen again. The disappearance of their daughter remains unsolved. Amy’s parents go on to have an unplanned child, a boy whom they dote on. Eighteen years later he falls in love with a mysterious arrival to the village. On the anniversary of Amy’s disappearance, Amy’s father goes missing. A death will solve the mysteries, but whose? The end will shock and surprise you and is beyond anyone’s belief, including witchcraft, a family tree, a curse cast in the 1700s, and murder, but is the closure too late for Amy’s parents’ and brother?