When lovely young American Elizabeth Janney first set foot in the Scotland of her Stewart ancestors, she felt as if she were entering a realm of enchanted romance. But all too soon that enchantment turned to evil as the burning fires of passion yielded to the icy blasts of fear. Too late Elizabeth learned that the vows she made in marrying the charming but iron-willed Lord Arthur Covington bound her forever to the grim and isolated mansion of Covington Towers. Too late she learned that a curse she had mocked was real enough to turn her laughter into screams. Too late she learned what it meant to love a man with violence in his touch, and to live in a place where the undead ruled supreme. Too late Elizabeth tried to flee - as a nightmare key locked shut the doors of doom....