Just a Little Ghost Story

Simon and Julia Barrow are planning to retire to a cottage on the Yorkshire Moors, a ruin that they have bought and totally rebuilt. But Julia suddenly dies. Simon, lost and adrift, decides to go ahead with the move, encouraged by his daughter, Emma. She helps him settle in but, when she leaves, he is overwhelmed by loneliness.However, he soon finds out he is not exactly alone. There is something in the cottage. Things are moved about during the night. When he asks the locals if they know anything about strange events, he discovers the terrible history of his new home and finds out he is sharing his new life with the spirit ofa dead child.As Simon starts to look into the mystery of the boy's death, with the unlikely help of a punk rocker and an ex-policeman, he opens up a cold case involving child abuse and the disappearance of other children. As events unfold, he puts his new home, his new life and his sanity in danger. An old evil reappears and Simon's only hope of survival is in the hands of a very small ghost...In this novella, Jonathan Gregory, the author of the Gemini and Flowers Mysteries, take the traditional English haunted house story and turns it on its head