She dreamed she was just waking out of a deep sleep. She climbed reluctantly out of bed and went to the long mirror to comb her hair. But in the mirror she saw Marion...

How drastically Norah Faulkner's life had changed in the week since she had come to Cader Morb. Scarcely a few days before, she had arrived in the remote and untamed countryside of Wales eager to begin an assignment as assistant to the famous author Althea Syme. For Norah, the job had meant a chance to get away from a broken romance in London and lose herself in work.

But slowly and insidiously, bizarre and sinister events began to take hold of Norah—things she knew nothing about, but that somehow seemed intimately to involve her...

What lay behind the haunting resemblance that existed between Norah and Althea's niece, Marion, who had drowned mysteriously seven years before? And how did that likeness affect her relationship with Simon Syme, who had been completely shattered by his sister's death? Was Norah the one person who could forever put Marion's memory to rest?

Somehow the answers were tied to a dark secret in the Symes' past—a secret that threatened to destroy anyone who dared to share it.

Cader Morb—and the people in it—posed many questions for Norah Faulkner. Questions she had to resolve not only for the peace of her mind, but for the safety of her life...