On the twentieth anniversary of the death of Rebecca the hauntingly beautiful first wife of Maxim de Winter family friend Colonel Julyan receives an anonymous parcel It contains a black notebook with two handwritten words on the title page -- Rebecca's Tale -- & two pictures a photograph of Rebecca as a young child & a postcard of Manderley Rebecca once asked Julyan to ensure she was buried in the churchyard facing the sea if she ended up in the de Winter crypt she warned she'd come back to haunt him Now it seems she has finally kept her promise Julyan's conscience has never been clear over the official version of Rebecca's death Was Rebecca the manipulative promiscuous femme fatale her husband claimed Or the gothic heroine of tragic proportions that others had suggested The official story the 'truth' has only had Maxim's version of events to consider But all that is about to change