Mr Mockler and Mrs Acland have never met, but gradually Mrs Acland 's ghosts begin to take over Mr Mockler 's life.

Vice-Chancellor Bartley Humbolt has problems. His young university is almost bankrupt, his wife is threatening to leave him, his protege professor...

A shy, lonely American girl marries a charming man she meets while on vacation in England, unaware that he has sinister plans for her.

A prison visitor becomes involved with a convicted sex offender.