Omnibus edition of The Wine of Angels (Merrily Watkins, #1) and Candlenight, an unrelated novel by the same author. THE WINE OF The Revd Merrily Watkins had never wanted a picture postcard parish - or a huge haunted vicarage. Nor had she particularly wanted to walk straight into a local dispute over a controversial play about a strange seventeenth-century clergyman accused of witchcraft . . . a story that certain old-established families would rather remained obscure. But this is Ledwardine, steeped in cider and secrets. A paradise of cobbled streets and timber-framed houses. And also - as Merrily and her teenage daughter discover - a village where horrific murder is a tradition that spans centuries. 'Corpse candles, phantom funerals. The knocking, the moaning, the bird of death. It was insidious...' For Bethan, the schoolteacher, the old superstitions woven into the social fabric of her West Wales village are primitive and distasteful. Which is why she's pleased to welcome the sophisticated newcomers, London journalist Giles Freeman and his wife Claire. Surely they'll let in some fresh air? But the Freemans are keen to absorb this different culture, a whole new way of life - rejecting the advice of an old colleague who warns them of a hard and bitter land where they'll always dance on the edge of the abyss. 'We're really not meant to be here, you know, the English...'