When Naomi Marsh landed a job as personal secretary to the internationally famous dancer Vanda Quayne, it had seemed a dream position. But that was before the dancer began to receive notes threatening that she would be dead before the end of the month if she did not cancel her engagements and leave London. Would some incident out of the dancers mysterious past prove to be the undoing of both women? When things begin to unravel, it becomes Inspector Reynolds task to try to knit them back together.