Photographer Jo Ellen Hathaway thought she'd escaped the house calledSanctuary long ago. She'd spent her loneliest years there, after thesudden, unexplained disappearance of her mother. But now someone issending her pictures strange, candid close-ups, culminating in the mostshocking portrait of all - a photo of her mother, naked, beautiful anddead. Jo decides she must return to face her bitterly estranged family:her father, who has never recovered from the loss of his wife, and herbrother and sister. But while her presence stirs up old resentments, Jofinds solace with architect Nathan Delaney - who is also facing his owndemons. But while Jo and Nathan look for a way to lay the past to rest, amore sinister presence is watching the Hathaway family with interest. Itseems Sanctuary may be the most dangerous place of all...