Georgina Ferrars awakens in a small room inTregannon House, a private asylum in a remote corner of England, with no memoryof the past few weeks. Told that she admitted herself under the name LucyAshton the day before and then suffered a seizure, she insists the doctor ismistaken. But her uncle says that Georgina Ferrars is with him in London. Suddenlyher voluntary confinement becomes involuntary. Who is the woman in her uncle'shouse? Georgina's quest to free herself takes her from a cliffside cottage onthe Isle of Wight to the secret passages of Tregannon House and into a web ofhidden family ties on which her survival depends.