In the vibrant world of the Tree-Spirits, deep within the great Wood there lurks the same capacity for stupidity, duplicity and intrigue that contaminates the human world. 'PT' would readily admit to succumbing to the sins of his youth, ambition, pride and misplaced self-confidence, but nothing could have prepared him or his family for their devastating consequences. How is it possible that both goodness and nobility, evil and loathing, could emanate from the same mind, the same lips, even the same heart and then find such fatal expression under the canopy of the trees of Ecchwell? How could such a beauty spot also become the scene of ritual murder. This tragic story and its conclusions may shock the reader yet in truth, deep within, we are, none of us, far removed from it all.