A young journalist becomes the wife of a successful writer, author of detective novels - Barnaby Court. The young wife is full of hope, the future seems bright to her. But fate prepared its own tragic scenario. Unsuspecting Emma ends up in Cortlands, Barnaby's family home, where intrigue, secrets and hatred reign, carefully disguised. Instead of a wedding tour, the young woman is burdened with caring for Barnaby's children - two little girls (whose existence Emma did not even know existed). But Miss Court does not mourn this; on the contrary, she is trying to win the trust of abandoned girls. Emma becomes an unwitting witness to strange, inexplicable events taking place in her husband's house. Journalistic acumen and subtle intuition helped her unravel the tangle of incredible, monstrous crimes happening in respectable Cortlands. The price of marital happiness turned out to be prohibitively expensive, but Emma, who has a loving, generous heart, did not regret anything.