Viola

Viola Shannon is a precocious five year old who loves nothing more than spending her days in the garden with her mummy. Each evening she delights her family with tales of her adventures, from soaring from the treetops, to conversing with woodland fairies who live under the May apples. Surely, something as innocent as an imaginative child spending time with her mother should be no cause for alarm. Why then does the Shannon's watchful housekeeper, Mrs. Peppermint, regard the child's stories with such dismay? Is Viola really spending time only with her mother, is or is there someone or something more sinister roaming the grounds of the Shannon estate? When a visiting medium warns the family that Viola is in eminent danger, will Phillip Shannon be convinced to heed the medium's warning and put an end to his daughter's days in the garden? Has Mrs. Peppermint been right all along in her belief that no good could come from Viola's fantastic tales? Is the child's well-being really in jeopardy? Set in the late 19th century, at the height of the Spiritualism movement, "Viola" is Downton Abbey enters The Twilight Zone. It is both a chilling and charming tale of the supernatural, which will have readers examining their own recollections of the magical time that is childhood, the possibility of the afterlife, and the all too thin veil that separates this world from the next.