For daring to disobey her antagonistic father, Bella Schofield was banished to Blackstone Grange, a bleak house on the North Yorkshire coast. She was housekeeper to widowed Harold Braithwaite and his young children. Initially hostile, the family soon warmed to Bella, but the isolated house had unnerving secrets. Only when Tom Windle, a radical young lawyer from London, visited Blackstone, could Bella finally unravel the mysteries of the house and her own strange background.