Cassandra had been brought to Falconlough to be the brooding young masters secretary. But as soon as she arrived, she could see thefear on each frozen face of the household employees. An unknown horror lurked within Falconloughs walls, and all too soon, Cassandra realized that she was to play a strange and frightening role that of a woman to whom she bore a striking resemblance, a woman dishonored and dead. And as danger closed in on her, Cassandra realized that she could not leave. The secret of the doom that haunted the ONeills was inescapably entwined with the secrets of her own shrouded past.