The ancient Scots city of Glasgow, so calm and peaceful on the surface, had become a night-time jungle of bestial horror and screaming terror for beautiful Ardith Ross. She had been the adored star of the London stage until a nightmare fire turned her dreams to blackened cinders. Now, in this city of strangers, Ardith was haunted by a fiend from beyond the grave that only she could see . . . she was courted by a man she was desperately afraid to love . . . and she was threatened by a fate that made death seem sweet.