Laura newly married & ever conscious she may be living in the shadow of her husband Alec's first wife decides to take a holiday with his family in Cornwall Through the long hot summer days she is slowly charmed by the beautiful old house & the people she learns to know & love In time her uneasy spirit is soothed by the sparkling brilliant sea & her restless heart finally calmed But is this new-found tranquillity too good to be true? For with the arrival of an anonymous letter one accusing her of having an affair Laura's world is thrown into turmoil