The sleepy town of Longwood offers Kris Merrill a chance to finish her writing job, enjoy a rural summer and recover from a bitter divorce. And the weekend visits from her lover, Eric make everything almost perfect.
Then the rumors begin, whisperings of sudden deaths, disasters, "accidents' - all leading back to Mother Forshey and her clan. in the blood and violence of her island home, she learned the black art of voodoo. Now she walks the streets of Longwood in her robes and turban, spreading the suffocating stench of fear with her evil power and her snake-cold eyes. Mistress of the devil's ghoulish, secret rites, she holds the town in a death-grip.
No one who crosses her lives to talk--until Kris dares to challenge her poisonous spell. Now Mother Forshey scents a new prey...the perfect victim for her most fiendish rituals...the pretty young outsider, Kris, who will pay for her meddling in agony, in terror, in screams no one will hear...