Long before Sara came to San Francisco, the candle-lit figure in the mirror had haunted her dreams. But in the towering, old Varady mansion, where the sound of a kitten's mewing could make a domineering woman quake with fear, the nightmare turned into reality. Against the backdrop of San Francisco at the time of the Great Fire, Phyllis Whitney spins a dramatic tale of intrigue and romance - the gripping story of a young woman caught between love and suspicion and forced to confront a past she has hadden even from herself.