Description
Frances Wayne is shocked at the sudden news of her cousin Julie's suicide by drowning. But suspicions begin to crowd her mind when she recalls that Julie always had a deathly fear of water. Ignoring the advice of her fiance, Frances decides to pursue a secret investigation of her cousin's death by taking a position at Maxton Hall, the mental hospital where Julie worked and the setting for her suicide. There she meets Jeremy York, a resident physician of the hospital, with whom she soon falls in love. But when Frances, finally convinced that Julie was murdered, is plunged into the midst of a vicious conspiracy which claims her as its next victim, she no longer knows whether she can trust Jeremy...