EVIL, PASSION, ENCIRCLING DOOM! The magnificent staircases were overgrown with ivy. Her hostess was gone without warning. Her hose was grown sullen and coarse. And David Field, a tall, broad-shouldered stranger, seemed to know her at once, though they had never met. What had befallen the Castle? What part was Mary to play? A fear surged within her such as she had never known and something stronger, a rapturous love that called to her very soul. She knew now that she belonged there—to share the tortuous destiny of CASTLE CLOUD!