Kim had enjoyed playing opposite the handsome leading man, millionaire actor Johnny Craig. Even his unsavory past did not scare her away. When the show is closed, Johnny asks Kim to come with him to his family home in Dark Harbor to play an even stranger role. He wants her to pretend to be his fiancee, as a ploy to test the loyalty of his real fiancee, Sheila. But soon Kim learns about the ghost of a woman Johnny had once known . . . a ghost that keeps reappearing. Then even more strange facts about Johnny emerge, and what started as an innocent acting job becomes a race to save her own life.
William Edward Daniel Ross, W. E. Daniel "Dan" Ross (born 1912) is a bestselling Canadian novelist from Saint John, New Brunswick who wrote over 300 books in a variety of genres and under a variety of mostly female pseudonyms such as Laura Frances Brooks, Lydia Colby, Rose Dana, Jan Daniels, Ross Olin, Diane Randall, Clarissa Ross, Leslie Ames, Ruth Dorset, Ann Gilmer, Jane Rossiter, Dan Ross, Dana Ross, Marilyn Ross, Dan Roberts, and W.E.D. Ross. As Marilyn Ross he wrote popular Gothic fiction including a series of novels about the vampire Barnabas Collins based on the American TV series Dark Shadows (1966-71).