Nella Waits — Marlys Millhiser

He was her beautiful son, even with the shabby clothes and hair, every precious inch so straight and well formed. No one would take him from her again.

Nella had been dead for thirty years. Her son, Jay, now a grown man, returns to the old homestead to claim his inheritance.

Nella has been longing for this. She has waited for this. She has killed for this.

Then lovely young Lynnette Stewart falls in love with Jay, and Nella knows she will have to destroy her, too....