James Blackwood is sexy & handsome & a fighter pilot
- every girl's dream partner. At least that is what Diana Arnold thinks when her brother first introduces them. Before long they are in love & marry hastily just as war is declared. Then fate delivers what is the first of its cruel twists: James the day of their wedding is shot down over Northern France & killed. Diana is left not only a widow but pregnant with their child. Ten years later contentedly remarried Diana finds herself in the south of France sitting one morning in a sunny village square. A taxi draws up & she hears the voice of a man speaking English
- the unmistakable voice of someone who will set out to torment her & blackmail her & from whom there can be only one means of escape...