The christmas guest

December 1989 : Ashley Smith --a bright-eyed. American studying in London - has unexpectedly been invited by her classmate Emma Chapman to spend Christmas at Starvewood Hall, her family's seemingly idyllic Cotswoid manor house. But is there something strange about the old house. both stately and rundown ? What could the true motives of the mysterious Chapman family be ? And what horrors may lie beyond the pages of Ashley's diary ?