The Animals at Lockwood Manor

Book excerpt: August 1939. Hetty Cartwright arrives at Lockwood Manor to oversee a natural history museum collection, whose contents have been taken out of London for safekeeping. She must protect her charges from party guests, wild animals, Luftwaffe bombs. But she is unprepared for Lucy Lockwood, for whom the arrival of the museum brings new freedoms-- and nightmares. Hetty discovers that the manor is a place of secrets-- and someone is stalking her through its darkened corridors. -- adapted from jacket