Amazon.com description: Product Description: In a remote village near the English coast, Constantia Gifford lives with her father on the fringes of town, in a decaying mansion cluttered with the remains of his once famous museum of taxidermy. No one speaks of why the museum was shuttered or how the Giffords fell so low. Connie herself has no recollection a childhood accident erased all of her early memories. When a woman is found dead, snippets of long lost memories seep into Connie's mind leaving her with many questions. The answers are tied to a dark secret that lies at the heart of Blackthorn House, hidden among the bell jars of her father's workshop a mystery that draws Connie closer to danger, closer to madness closer to the startling truth.