Beautiful young Anne Stewart left her doom-haunted ancestral manor of Stormhaven in Scotland - yet the malevolent Stewart destiny seemed to have pursued her to a lonely French chateau. The dazzling violinist who was its master had played a hypnotic song of love on her heartstrings - until he began to torment her nerves in a rising crescendo of suspicion. Friendless and afraid in this alien place, Anne fled through a subterranean labyrinth of treachery and violence . . .