"One of the most exciting and colorful horror stories published in many seasons. Virginia Swain has chosen St. Catherine's in the Bahamas, to show that beneath a lazy tropical lethargy, may lurk a ferocity which, for sheer vindictiveness, can have no parallel where blood runs cooler.
In this town of white limestone streets, Lester Drummond, a young doctor, arrives to visit his uncle, Dr. Simeon Stuart. Here he meets the enigmatical Percy Isher, mysterious Valentine and her brusque companion, and Lady Mary, covetous of the forbidding Chantry House with its evil history and tactiturn servants.
Miss Swain, throughout this extraordinary story maintains the suspense and uncertainty conrfronting her principal characters.