“Sounds like a job for a partner, really,” replies Claudia and, promotion thus secured, duly heads out for her mother’s homeland. She may wish, before we are very far in, that she had gone for senior partnership instead. The planter’s house is one that has been appearing to her in recent nightmares that have been full of fires, terrified figures and strange symbols. Angelo assures her that she will not be able to talk Cudjoe into giving up his legacy. The spirits with which the local people think the house, their land, their culture is infused become increasingly restless.