Something is not quite right about Merleton Court. Beneath the veneer of warm welcome from the society ladies and the flattering attentions of the charming young gentlemen, beneath the uneasy whispers of the servants and the gossiping tongues of the villagers, something dark lurks about the forbidding ancestral home of the Deverneys and prowls its lonely grounds and passageways.

What shameful secrets lie hidden in the Deverneys' past and the beautiful, mysterious chamber in the West Wing which still exerts such an irresistible allure?

Poor lovely, feted Lady Seraphine, the lost heiress of the Deverneys, found at last and returned home to Merleton Court. But perhaps it had always been too late to escape her fate...