A collection of three gothic novellas. Broken voices: Does music have its ghosts? Its victims? Something is stirring in the cathedral that both echoes an ancient tragedy and seems to offer a chance of future happiness. Leper house: A chilling ghost story, set a hundred years ago in an East Anglican cathedral city. Two lonely schoolboys at the end of childhood are forced into an unwanted companionship. Scratch: Clare and Gerald live the perfect life in a remote cottage in the Forest of Dean. But perfection is fragile, and some scratches never heal.