She went in search of her past...and found danger in the present. Former seamstress Clara Blackwood seems to have found happiness at last. Now a blissfully married baroness, she is mistress of a grand estate. But soon a mysterious summons shatters her contented life. The grandmother Clara never knew is on her deathbed and anxious to disclose vital family secrets before it's too late-for Clara's unborn child may be cursed with a horrible fate. At dismal Thurnley Hall, Clara and her husband, Atticus, find intrigue brewing. Her boorish uncle, Horace Burleigh, is greedy for her wealth and desperate to protect the family's mysteries. Superstitious fear of Atticus torments the hulking Romanian servant, Grigore, and even the soft-spoken young ward, Victor Lynch, may have secret motives for getting close to Clara and her husband. When her grandmother dies under suspicious circumstances, Clara feels compelled to investigate. And when someone dear to her vanishes mysteriously, she must draw on all her strength and determination to find him before his time runs out . . . before her life can be cursed once more.