As soon as she saw the house on the moors north of Hexham, Constance Stapleton was attracted to it, even though it was isolated. With her marriage on the brink of collapse, she had already decided to sell the flat she and her husband Jim shared, and besides, she wanted to live on the moors. To buy the house, Connie had to negotiate with the mysterious Vincent O'Connor, and afterwards, when the house was hers and she had settled in, Connie was to discover that mystery was a way of life with Vincent O'Connor ...