When Erica visited the vast Crosswyn estate in Queensland, she found herself surrounded by unexpected luxury. Yet she wasn't quite happy. She no longer felt sure of urbane, easy-going Jeremy, and as for his brother Matt...dark...threatening...disapproving, she had distrusted him from the first moment she set eyes on him. With the addition of some difficult female inmates: sleek, predatory Lilyan; disabled and nervous Jenny; and Flo, who was dead but whose presence visibly still influenced the household; plus the echoes of a dying gipsy woman's last mysterious message; it was not surprising thatErica viewed her 'holiday' with some apprehension. - back cover