In the silence she could hear the oncoming hum, like a large flock approaching. She didn''t want to hear his story; she''d had enough of them. Tess is on the run when she''s picked up from the side of the road by lonely middle-aged father Lewis Rose. With reluctance, she''s drawn into his family troubles and comes to know a life she never had. Set in Masterton at the turn of the millennium, Tess is a gothic love story about the ties that bind and tear a family apart.