Half-Hawaiian Audrey Mason came to San Francisco as a child, after her mother died ... to the strange and gloomy old mansion where under the guise of kindness, distant relatives spun a web of intrigue around her and her inheritance...Audrey, grown to womanhood, returned to her beloved Hawaii, to blue skies and sand and the crash of foaming surf...where in the midst of beauty lurked evil waiting to clutch at her, to betray all the promise of happiness life and love held out. A book written in 1967, when ethics were clear and evil recognizable.