Robin Venner knew she was doing wrong when she agreed to a fraudulent "marriage" to Jamie Cromwell. But the temptation of the fortune he would recieve combined with his strange influence on her swayed her better judgement-and swept her into a role more difficult than any professional actress has ever had to play. The difficulties began as soon as she saw Cromwell Crossing, the sinister old house on the mountain. The very first sight of it frightened her inexplicably. And there was a subtle menace in the people she met there...