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Lucy Waring, an English actress whose work has stalled, follows her sister Phyllida to the idyllic island of Corfu. She expects a peaceful retreat on the shore of the Ionian Sea, a place said to inspire Shakespeare’s *The Tempest*. However, the peace is brief. A series of suspicious events—culminating in the discovery of a human corpse on the shore—draw Lucy into a dangerous spiral of fear, violence, and unexpected romance. What begins as a simple vacation quickly becomes a nightmarish journey as Lucy confronts shadows of terror and the threat of sudden death.
First publish date: January 1971
Genre: Suspense/Romantic Suspense
Authors: Mary Stewart
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