Beautiful and alone, Jennie Gordon came to her sister Selena's San Francisco mansion to find fear and menace, old scandals that cast their shadows on the present and her glamorous sister utterly obsessed by the notion that her husband would kill her. When Selena died suddenly, shockingly, Jennie longer to flee. But she was held by a powerful and strange attraction to her bother-in-law. Should she stay to face the nameless terror, and perhaps risk her life...?