When Leigh Hayden arrived at Wyndham Island to visit her sister and brother-in-law, it was as though she had been drawn there by some mysterious force. She had come with the intention of staying no more than a few days, but after her brother-in-law's accident, Leigh decided to prolong her visit.

By now she had become part of an unfolding drama involving a lovely old carousel-shaped music box and strange little incidents that more than hinted at some "other worldly" presence to whom Leigh was especially sensitive. And there was also Radford Wyndham, handsome and enigmatic, and she was drawn to him as fatefully as she had been drawn to Wyndham Island....