A young widow trapped by murder and madness in a ghoulish country house - a ruin haunted by a past romance...and a demon lover The terms of her inheritance might be...her life Nancy was bound to WADE HOUSE for at least one year - or until her late husband Jeffrey Wade would have been of age to claim his millions. She was chained to the will and caprice of a family plagued by madness and deusions from an unsavory past. Bella - the passionate, enigmatic housekeeper with a wildly unexpected stake in the family fortune and a fierce desire to protect it. Tony - her late husband's brother. Lean, sardonic, troubled. Witness to a murder long overdue. Ernestine - Mother. Unstable, helpless. Not to be trusted, they thought. Seward - cousin. Guardian of the secret that shadowed their fate. They would sooner see Nancy Wade dead than one of them.