Twelve-year-old Annie is invited to Hexer Hall to work as a servant for the mysterious Lady Hexer. Carvings of snakes are everywhere and when Annie touches one, she travels back in time to when the Hall was a leper hospital, run by a sinister doctor with a collection of terrifying serpents.
Readers of "Tom's Midnight Garden" and "Witch Child" will enjoy this historical novel which also interweaves time travel and magic. Ages: 9+