Something creeps under the floorboards of the Rutherford Estate, the fortress where Eileen Morgan spends her sixteenth summer in Fife, Scotland -- a usually quiet community but where locals have been experiencing freak accidents -- stampeding by bull and falling to their deaths in the North Sea. The inheritance of the estate is now in question. Will it be Ewan Stalker, the estranged grandson who tends the sheep? Will she help the shy young man? Will she be gored by Caedmon the bull or chased into a mineshaft by the resident ghost? Whichever her choice, a dynasty may disappear forever should she do nothing at this, the Rutherford's direst hour.