Humiliated and abused as a child, her only friend her father, her only benefit her education - which enabled Ambrosia to excape to a comparatively normal life as wife and mother and to earn a living working as a research scholar on the Web. But jealousy and hate will not leave her alone and the footsteps which have been stalking her alll her life, finally close in. They lead to madness and murder.

Many of the poems in this anthology are in response to the countryside of Derbyshire and its history. Others arise from experiences in 'lived life', events which were life-enhancing or illuminating. The long narrative poem which completes the volume started out as an anti-nuclear allegory and retains some of those atributes still - that is before the demands of the story took priority.