Kidnapped on the streets of London, taken unconscious by coach to the great estate of Willerby and there held captive by the handsome but bitter man who claimed to be her guardian, beautiful Linnet Grey was almost convinced that she really was the evil heart-breaking heiress whose face in a portrait was the twin of her own. Linnet knew there was only one way to find out - she would have to follow the sickly sweet smell of violets up the circular stairway to the West Tower where she had been forbidden to go on pain of death ...