It's the early 1960s. Young Belinda Stone is filming a gothic horror film in an unused Italian castle. There are many rooms in the castle, rooms she's not allowed to enter. But Belinda is young and unafraid and what she finds behind those locked doors will change her forever.

Cynthia Lee lives in Alabama with her husband, son and a very old cat. After a lifelong love affair with books for young people (and young at heart people), she decided to write stories of her own. Penny Dreadful is her first novel.