A bewildered young girl deprived of a sizable fortune...
A forbidding mansion crammed with the bits and pieces of a lifetime of seclusion...
A family secret hidden in a yellowing, crumbling diary...

These are what wealthy, embittered old Harriet Lowden left behind her when she died, alone, friendless, and estranged from her family.

It was the old diary that obsessed lovely young Susan Lowden. She knew instinctively that between the lines of the faded, Spencerian script lay the key to the puzzle of an evil past that was even now casting its shadow into the present.

But it was Susan's reluctant attraction to the cynical young stranger who suddenly appeared, that tied up the loose ends of an old, unsuspected, inhuman murder.