When Elinor took a post as governess to a little girl in faraway New Zealand, she didn't expect to find herself in the middle of a feud between her handsome employer and his equally handsome half-brother. Nor had she been warned that in a strange land strange things might happen. When she unwittingly broke a sacred Maori tapu, did she bring disaster to Huntersford, the house in the wilderness? Or was some sinister but less supernatural force responsible for the accidents that befell its inhabitants?