After Me Comes the Flood

One hot summer's day, John Cole decides to leave his life behind. When his car breaks down on an isolated road, he goes looking for help and stumbles upon a grand but dilapidated house. Its residents claim to have been waiting for him...There's Hester, their controlling host, Alex and Claire, siblings full of child-like wonder, the mercurial Eve, Elijah - a faithless former preacher and chain-smoking Walker, wreathed in smoke and hostility. Who are these people? And what do they intend for John?