Harriet had always dreamed of striking out on her own, leaving her disapproving aunt and her pugnacious uncle. So when the job of tutoring Marcus Raven's two children was offered to her, she eagerly accepted. Though it meant going to the ends of the earth, she couldn't wait to begin her new life. At Ravensfall house, tucked away in the wild and forbidding New Zealand bush, Harriet entered a world of dark and sinister secrets, where chilling screams pierced the night air, and the brooding, menacing master of Ravensfall roamed the halls night after night. Though Marcus Raven intimidated her and challenged her, she would not leave. And when he took her in his arms, his warmth and tenderness sparked her deepest desires and made her more determined to uncover the danger that seemed to lurk in every corner, behind every door, waiting for her.

Malvina Raven returned to New Zealand determined to vanquish the ghosts in her family's past-a past filled with terror, murder, and madness that even now stalked her with terrible nightmares that left her trembling in her bed. Surely now that she was a woman grown she would be able to walk the empty rooms and winding halls of Ravensfall without fear. But Ravensfall was not empty at all. Malvina's cousins Clinton and Lucy lived there now, along with Devlin Fordyke, a handsome, brooding American who was renting one of the estate cottages. And none of them seemed at all happy to see her. Sudden silences greeted her when she entered a room: her every move was regarded with cold suspicion. She began to suffer paralyzing sleepiness and eerie delusions that soon had her doubting her sanity. Then she discovered the laudanum, and Malvina knew the truth. Someone was trying to scare her away from her childhood home...someone who knew far too much about the ghosts of Ravensfall for Malvina's own good!