Shepzoy is a changed place after the horrifying events of All Hallows Eve. Nathan's desperate attempts to contact Gabriel have left him on the edge of madness, and Charlotte is struggling to hold their marriage and the farm together. The harder she tries to save Nathan the further he pushes her away. As the increasingly strange events reach a haunting climax, could Nathan finally unravel the mystery of the woman with the book of light? Will Nathan risk everything for a chance to see his son again - and can Charlotte find a way to help him? 

From the co-creator of Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes, comes The Living and the Dead, a major new supernatural series set in rural England in the 1890s. When Nathan Appleby, a pioneering psychologist, inherits Shepzoy House in a beautiful but isolated Somerset valley, he decides to make a new life for himself and his adored wife, Charlotte. But soon the idyll is compromised by strange and disturbing occurrences that all seem to inexplicably swirl around the increasingly troubled Nathan. Is he being haunted? Why? And by whom? The answers will shatter every belief this man has ever held and threaten everything and everyone he has ever loved.