In the mind of a lonely, imaginative girl, who can tell where fiction ends and reality begins? An epic fantasy, spanning nine years... The fire and hemlock photograph above Polly´s bed sparks memories in her that don´t seem to exist any more. Halloween nine years ago she gatecrashed a funeral party at the big house and met Thomas Lynn for the first time. Despite the fact that he´s an adult, they struck up an immediate friendship, and began making up stories together - stories in which Tom is a great hero, and Polly is his assistant. The trouble is, these scary adventures have a nasty habit of coming true... But what has happened in the years between?Why has Tom been erased from Polly´s mind, and from the rest of the world as well? Gradually Polly uncovers the awful truth and, at Halloween nine years on, realises that Tom´s soul is forfeit to demonic powers unless she can save him.