Rachel is dead, but at whose hands? And why? Helen kws. Helen regrets what happened, recalling the murder of Rachel, recalling Max too, the stranger come to call, the instigator of evil.... ....Max has lost his wife. He's lost his reason as well, causing him to travel to the village at the end of the world, hoping to outrun grief in the doing. But he's distracted in this strange place, stumbling upon Rachel who tells him the village is trying to kill her. Can he escape his own anguish to help her? Can he save her from a village turned violent, from its lies and wild suspicions, and its belief that Max has come to do harm? Or is the madness he encounters all just the product of his own hallucinations? And who is Helen in this wayward place, the woman who befriends him, the woman who seems to imply familiarity? In her latest vel Jean Hobbs examines the workings of grief and loneliness, and the need for community.