Synopsis: "Daniel is looking for a quiet place to live. When he finds a house in Hove, England, he opens the door to a harrowing encounter with the supernatural. Unable to eat and plagued by the spirit of the previous tenant, Daniel gradually grows weak and is drawn into a trap orchestrated by his mysterious and malevolent landlord. He begins to hallucinate and experiences visions of his dismembered hand lying, wet and dead, on a beach, pierced through the palm with a nail. Meanwhile, an unknown woman's severed arm has washed up on the shore of Brighton beach, the hand pierced, as if by a nail ... " — quoted from the Borealis mass-market paperback's back cover.