Colleen Evans expected to spend a quiet, dreamlike vacation in a rustic cabin on beautiful Lake Topaz. Instead, she found herself living a nightmare. It began with a ransacked kitchen, ominous warnings, and a somber enemy lurking on her own front porch. Then someone viciously slashed the living-room painting whose lovely subject, Amy Scott, bore an uncanny resemblance to Colleen. Who was behind this campaign of terror? And why? Could it be Line Gordon or Jason Lewis, the attractive, mysterious young men Colleen had recently met? Could it be eccentric old Scags Barnett or one of the enigmatic Brooks sisters? And exactly how desperate was Colleen's tormentor? Desperate enough to become a killer?