Are the weird events which dog a quarrelsome family really caused by an irate saint?
Cuddy . . . could control the wind, raise storms. He struck people dead even when he was in his tomb.’
Bertrand and Madeline shouldn’t have got married. Even their children thought so. Thus it is not suprising that the family’s holiday in Northumberland gets off to a bad start.
But things turn much worse after Madeline steps on St. Cuthbert’s tomb in Durham Cathedral, for the whole family are plunged into a series of bizarre and frightening events. Soon they come to feel that the eye of the long-dead saint is really on them . . .