A whirlpool of evil

Since her husband's tragic death the year before, Amanda Harcourt has been living in somber seclusion in her father-in-law's lonely Victorian house. But now, a stranger, Michael Kyd, a darkly handsome man who bears a disturbing resemblance to her late husband, arrives to tell her "...it was no accident that your husband died...he was murdered"...

And so the stage is set for a drama of hate and greed that will plunge Amanda into a turmoil of malice—and passion. Step by step, terror by terror, she learns the truth about her husband's death. But not before she is torn by a growing fear of the man she has come to love...