Best known for her much-loved children's classics (The Railway Children, Five Children and It, The Story of the Treasure Seekers), E Nesbit also wrote for adults taking her wit, humour and suspenseful writing style to a wider audience.Dormant is a romantic supernatural fantasy reminiscent of early science-fiction/horrors Frankenstein and Dracula. It charts the adventure of an ordinary group of friends when one member finds he has inherited vast wealth, an estate, and a powerful secret that could change the future of mankind forever.