title: Hiding from the Light
author:  Barbara Erskine 
description: The big new novel by the bestselling author of WHISPERS IN THE SAND: a gripping tale of witchcraft and romance, past and present, as her modern-day characters are caught up in a battle that has been raging for hundreds of years. Across the peninsular the mist rolled in, its icy fingers curling up the cliffs. Inside their houses people stirred in their sleep and children cried in the dark. The parish of Manningtree and Mistley has a dark history. In 1644, with England in the grip of a Puritan government, Matthew Hopkins, Cromwell's Witchfinder General, tortured scores of women there, including Liza, the herbalist, whose cottage still stands in Mistley, and Sarah Paxman, the daughter of the manor. And today the spirits of Hopkins and his victims haunt the old shop in the High Street, they say. Emma Dickson has given up her high-flying career to live in Liza's cottage, but now she is being driven half-mad by visions of the past; of Sarah's battle to save herself and Liza from the Witchfinder. In despair, Emma turns to the local rector for help, but he, too, is in the grip of something inexplicable -- something which threatens Emma. And, as the feast of Halloween approaches, Emma is caught up in a struggle that has been raging for centuries, as old enemies reach out across the years for their revenge. Can she stop the forces unleashed from the past wreaking their devastation in the present?
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  # The Secret Chamber at Chad
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Evelyn Everett-Green
  
  
  This page formatted 2005 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  Chapter I: A Mysterious Visitor.
  
  
  Chapter II: The Household At Chad.
  
  
  Chapter III: Brother Emmanuel.
  
  
  Chapter IV: The Travelling Preacher.
  
  
  Chapter V: A Warning.
  
  
  Chapter VI: Watched!
  
  
  Chapter VII: An Imposing Spectacle.
  
  
  Chapter VIII: Hidden Away.
  
  
  Chapter IX: The Search.
  
  
  Chapter X: From Peril To Safety.
  
  
  
  
  
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  Produced by Martin Robb
  
  
  THE SECRET CHAMBER AT CHAD by Everett Evelyn-Green.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Chapter I: A Mysterious Visitor.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  The great house at Chad was wrapped in sleep. The brilliant beams of
  
  
  a June moon illuminated the fine pile of gray masonry with a strong
  
  
  white light. Every castellated turret and twisted chimney stood out in
  
  
  bold relief from the heavy background of the pine wood behind, and the
  
  
  great courtyard lay white and still, lined by a dark rim of ebo