The party was long over when beautiful Lisa Marsden came to Deveron Hall in the Scottish highlands, the party that had seen her Hollywood director father savagely slain, her glamorous actress mother committed to an asylum, and Lisa's own childhood shattered by pain and loss. Lisa's mother had been released now, officially declared no longer mad. Deveron Hall had been reopened, its hideous memories brought back to life. And Lisa had come from America to confront the mother she could barely remember and the act of violence she could never forget, only to find herself desperately in love with a man she could not trust, tormented by a terror she could not name, and trapped by a murderous evil that would not die.