Joni Blackwood is my best friend. She was there for my first crush stood beside me at my wedding and messy divorce watched my daughter grow up. So when she suddenly goes missing on All Gallows' Eve I'm first to raise the alarm. People outside the village say she must have been sacrificed in some pagan ritual. But All Gallows' Eve isn't like that. We're just simple folk enjoying an annual bonfire to keep an old tradition alive. It's mulled cider charity bake sales and the Gallows Queen - which Joni wins every year. But when the bones of a small child are unearthed in the church graveyard I have to wonder how many secrets are running through our village. And I wonder if Joni can really outrun hers and if I can really outrun mine.