Trying to escape an unhappy love affair, Pippa Korvak leaves Paris and comes to Cambermere Hall, her father's country house. But Cambermere does not prove e to be the haven she had sought. Handsome journalist Stephen Lorant seems fiercely resolved to blacken the name of Pippa's father, Alexis Korvak. And Pippa is equally determined to prove her father's innocence -- though surrounded on every side by tragedy and danger. When mysterious "accidents" begin to threaten Pippa's life, she becomes ever more anxious to uncover the shocking truth...