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2026: An old school, even older legends. Some of them very dark indeed….
The Night Stairs
What you need to know before your trail
Centuries of tradition are coming to an end at St Cordula’s school. Deputy Head, Fiona Fox, is about to preside over a controversial move to save it from ruin. But it’s not easy to change things at a school this old.
Legend has it that the ghost of fifteenth-century nun, Sister Matilda, will keep St Cordula’s safe. But only as long as the words ‘GOD FORGIVE ME’, scrawled by Matilda on a chapel staircase wall before she fell to her death, are repainted every year. The words have only been allowed to fade once, in 2002. But then, fits of vertigo spread through the pupils, and a second girl fell to her death on the night stairs. Only three people know the truth of what happened on the night of the tragedy.
Now the vertigo is back, and Fiona must stem the outbreak before it threatens St Cordula’s future, or worse, another girl loses her life. But when one of her pupils begins a dangerous investigation into the past, old secrets start to twist into new scandals…
Locations
Reset- England - Yorkshire moors
- A: North York Moors National Park
- B: North Riding Forest Park
- C: Mount Grace Priory, House and Gardens
Travel Guide
Yorkshire Moors
The school is of course fictional and set somewhere in the Yorkshire moors. The beauty of this landscape is that the remoteness and the undulating hills give an impression that anything can happen here and be hidden.
The school is old and secluded – interestingly, it features a chapel stairwell where some scenes in the book take place……
Plenty of old houses that could be an old school………….there’s a priory with an interesting history!
BookTrail Boarding Pass: The Night Stairs
Destination/ location: Yorkshire Moors Author/guide: Erin Kelly Departure Time: 2026
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