For three years she had dreamed of coming back In the summer of 1903, Sophie Munroe finally returns to her childhood home in Jamaica Eden, the hauntingly beautiful plantation is nearly bankrupt and her sister Madeleine is hiding something What can be so wrong that she cannot tell Sophie? Furthermore, her own inheritance, the house at Fever Hill, is slipping into ruin There seems to be no-one to turn to and Sophie finds herself facing the savage prejudices of a colonial society and the need to confront the ghosts of her past