Celias mother died bringing her into the world - when one soul flies in, another flies out, her aunt Tassi says. So she lives in Black Rock , Tobago, with her cousins and Tassis second husband Roman, a man so sly he could crawl under a snakes belly on stilts. Celia thinks hes the devil, so when he does something that proves her right, she runs away to Trinidad and a new life in service. A lyrical novel, Amanda Smyths writing matches the lushness of the vivid tropical landscape. Black Rock is tinged with a sense of the supernatural.