Practical and unassuming Jane Shoringfield has done the calculations and decided that the most secure path forward is to find a husband, a marriage of convenience if you will. So she may stay independent with meaningful work. So she chooses the reclusive but dashing Dr. Augustine Lawrence. Who agrees on the condition that she must never visit his decrepit family home, Lindridge Hall. But on their wedding night, an accident strands her on the doorsteps of Lindridge Hall and she finds him changed. No longer is he bold and caring, but paranoid and cold. One who cannot tell reality from nightmare Jane knows something is deeply wrong, so its up to her to unearth this mystery and save her new husband.