Mia Benson was twenty-one when her father died and she was left to face the future almost alone. So it seemed too good to be true when, unexpectedly, she came to live with her cousin Jan in the beautiful Scottish village dominated by the Tower on the hill. But their pleasure was marred by a malicious, unpredictable neighbour -- which was only partly alleviated by the good-natured Bill, who farmed the land behind their cottage and by Shaw Murdoch, the handsome son of a wealthy builder, who made no secret of his admiration for Mia.
Not so likeable was Bain Alexander, nephew of the neurotic woman Mia secretly feared and whom it was impossible to avoid.
Life in the village became insupportable when a poison pen letter arrived and Mia's efforts to trace the writer ended first in disaster then happiness where she least expected it.