When lovely Miranda Heath, suddenly orphaned and penniless, turned for help to her father's old partner, Captain Bascomb, she found herself plunged into a whirlpool of intrigue and danger.
From the moment of her arrival at the gloomy old Bascomb mansion in the small New England port of Scots Harbor, Miranda became the target of a strange and violent conspiracy. And only she could untangle the truth.
For Miranda could not trust anyone in the Captain's bizarre household...least of all the dark and dour young Brock McLean, whom the Captain insisted she marry...