Perchester, Oxfordshire is a town with secrets kept hidden for the sake of all who live there, a safe place where you can be sure your children will grow up with certain attitudes, mindful of the inheritance granted them. It has always been that way.Secrets, though, have a way of coming out of the mist, of disturbing the balance of nature. When some of the town's teenage population see a figure in that closing mist - when what they see drives them out of their minds - the nearby facility at Wendlefields becomes a staging post in a war between good and evil, between nature and nurture.For jaded local journalist Simon Kinsey, it is a war that will see him pushed to his limit as he discovers his hometown is not all it seems and that the past very much plays a part in the present, from which the legend of Ghost Apples is born.