Reverend Jack Brooks and her daughter, Flo, move to the sleepy village of Chapel Croft, unaware of it’s dark secrets. After strong advice not to look into the village’s past, Jack begins to question what happened to two teenage girls, Merry Joanne Lane and Joy Harris, who vanished from Chapel Croft thirty-years ago. Jack is encouraged to play detective by a retired local journalist who also warns Jack about the ghosts of “The Burning Girls” that haunt The Chapel; two spirits of twin eight-year-old sisters, burned at the stake in 1556, during Queen Mary’s purge of Protestants.
Flo quickly befriends awkward local teenager, Lucas Wrigley. They share the same interests, but their friendship takes an unexpected turn when Wrigley takes Flo to an abandoned house in the woods—the former home of Merry Joanne Lane!
A malevolent force is determined to track Jack down, and it soon becomes clear Jack may be running away from secrets of her own. Her refusal to stop investigating the past means that events reach an explosive conclusion…
Based on the novel by C.J. Tudor, the series is adapted by Hans Rosenfeldt and Camilla Ahlgren. The psychological thriller stars Samantha Morton (The Walking Dead) as Reverend Jack Brooks and Ruby Stokes (Bridgerton) as her 15-year-old daughter Flo. Joining Morton and Stokes are Conrad Khan (Peaky Blinders), Rupert Graves (Sherlock, Emma), Stranger Things star Elodie Grace Orkin, Janie Dee, David Dawson (The Last Kingdom), Paul Bradley (EastEnders), Jane Lapotaire (The Crown, Marie Curie), Jack Roth (Bohemian Rhapsody), Mollie Holder (Sanditon), Safia Oakley-Green (The Origin, Sherwood), Beth Cordingly (Learning to Walk Again) and John Macmillian (House of Dragon).
