A Talisman of Terror! When Venora Alren learned of her friend Julie's suicide, she was shocked and bewildered. Julie had been young, happily married, a girl with everything to live for. Why would she have taken her own life? The question troubled Venora even more when she was given Julie's moonstone pendant. It was a family heirloom; a beautiful, pearlescent love gift to Julie's mother which had, ironically, brought both mother and daughter to violent ends. Now the pendant was Venora's, and from the moment she slipped it about her neck she knew her will was not her own. For suddenly she was trapped in a tormented netherworld—and slowly, inexorably, forced to relive another woman's death...