Substituting coastal England for France, Wellsley uses many of the same elements of "Chateau of Secrets/Stranger in a Dark Land," from a criminal operation to the government agent trying to stop them. The first chapter is the best chapter, involving the heroine being stalked in a storm, although a middle section contains a fairly gross encounter between the heroine and a nest of rodents. Otherwise, the novel jumps around from character viewpoint to character viewpoint a little too much, another device Wellsley employed frequently. Less a Gothic than a romantic suspense novel.