Beautiful young Andrea had come from Los Angeles to her ancestral home in England to meet her relatives and confront her heritage for the first time. As she crossed the threshold of townsend House, she felt as if she were crossing the line dividing the present from the past, and entering a world that was both utterly strange yet hauntingly familiar. Soon she learned how right she was. For waiting for her was Victor Townsend. . . a man who reached out to embraced her from beyond the grave. . . a man whom she hungered for even though she knew the evil he had wrought . . . a man who made love and fear the same, and made her s slave to both. . .