It's all a grand adventure when Christy Mansel unexpectedly runs into
her cousin Charles in Damascus. And being young, rich, impetuous, and
used to doing whatever they please, they decide to barge in uninvited on
their eccentric Great-Aunt Harriet--despite a long-standing family rule
strictly forbidding unannounced visits. A strange new world awaits
Charles and Christy beyond the gates of Dar Ibrahim--"Lady Harriet's"
ancient, crumbling palace in High Lebanon--where a physician is always
in residence and a handful of Arab servants attends to the odd old
woman's every need.
But there is a very good--very sinister--reason why guests are not
welcome at Dar Ibrahim. And the young cousins are about to discover
that, as difficult as it is to break into the dark, imposing edifice, it
may prove even harder still to escape . . .