When Elspeth arrives on a remote Scottish island to become a nanny to a young girl, she hopes to bond with her& until she learns that, for reasons no one will explain, Mary has not spoken for months. And the child s silence is not the only mystery. Hypnotic lullabies drift down empty corridors. Strange dolls appear in abandoned rooms. As the nights draw in, darker questions arise: what happened to Mary s late twin, William? Why did their previous nanny disappear so suddenly? And is the whistling Elspeth hears at night just the storm outside? Or is somebody coming for her?

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