For Ginny, the new house represents a new start: a room of her own where she can research her book on the psychology of fairytales and recover from a bitter divorce. The last thing she`s looking for is romance. But her young neighbour breaks down her defences. Sean cooks her delicious meals and rescues her from a drunken attack by her ex-husband. His only eccentricity is the locked room in his house that he forbids her to enter. It can`t contain anything sinister, can it? Ginny can`t resist finding out. But when she opens the door, she is propelled into a horror story, rather than a fairytale ...