Mally, a beautiful young widow, loved her husband deeply. When the handsome, titled and rich, Sir Christopher Carlyon falls in love with her, the memory of her dead husband keeps her from giving her heart fully.
To complicate matters, a beautiful noblewoman is madly in love with Chris and will do almost anything to win him over. When Mallyβs mother arrives, with news of a murder, a death, and a disappearance, they must travel far away from London, to the Welsh border, to a haunted castle where they encounter a mysterious gentleman and exciting intrigue in a storm-ravaged countryside.