Kate Croston thought she had escaped Charles Manningham when she fled over the seas from England to America. She tried to forget the time when she was foolish enough to love this handsome aristocrat -- before she came to know the evil that possessed him. But now, in the isolated New England mansion of Penrose, Kate saw that her flight had been in vain. Her whole body seemed to tremble as she stared into Charles Manningham's arrogant, icily smiling face. Only her ears could detect the veiled menace in his ironic voice: "Kate, my love, I have been looking forward to this moment for so long. Let us make sure we never part again....