Samhain 2012, the plotting begins...

It was Halloween 2009, a few months previously I’d suffered a miscarriage and we were trying for another baby, but as I sat at the dining room table that evening, hot water bottle clutched to my stomach – it had just become apparent that there was no baby on the way this month either. It was one of my lowest moments. As the neighbourhood children knocked on the door, trick or treating, our home seemed so quiet and empty. Now we’d set our hearts on becoming a family, the house seemed lonely with just the two of us in it.