Time has stopped for Zoé Croome at the moment when she was about to elope with her lover. Thirty years had passed but Zoé was still a girl - in body, in heart and mind. She was beautiful; she was fentle. But she was mad. The world beyond that last meeting with her fiancé had ceased to exist for her.
But to Olive York, who had gone to Judge Croome's place to forger her own disappointment in love, Zoé was real, and Olive determined to free Zoé from her illusion.
To do this she had to deal with awesome and bitter Joanna, Zoé's sister who controller Zoé's fate.
From the moment Olive York stands alone in the railway station during a hurricane, to the last unraveling of the mystery of the Croomes of Yonder Island, Margaret Bell Houston has sustained a mood of eerie foreboding of the greatest fascination. Time has a new meaning. age is held at bay. And she has created characters and an atmosphere of suspense with such skill and precision that they will be forever memorable to readers who like Rebecca and Wuthering Heights. (Book cover notes)