Her foster mother's deathbed confession, and a strange, sudden twist of fate compels Jane Randell to return to Shadow Glen, a forbidding castle on the Hudson River, to live with strangers.

Soon after her arrival, she became aware of the chilling fear, the deceit and ominous whispers that hovered in the castle's rooms.

Then she realized that her life was in danger as the evil from out of the past reared its hideous hear - and the secret of Shadow Glen was revealed before Jane's horrified eyes!