You won't put this book down until you learn what happens to: Julia Randell when her hunsband regains his eyesight she discover, with mounting terror, that love is often better blind; Venetia Palmer whose husband's skin color was not a problem until they settled in Auldburn where at least one town bigot practiced hisown groteque brand of black magic; Nikakova, whose father could not forget the man who seduced her, nor could he rest until he wreaked a gruesome revenge.