High above the river stood the small terrace of miners' cottages known as Fenwick Houses. And here during the hazardous years of the depression lived Christine Winter a girl blessed - or cursed - with the indefinable appeal that drove men to the brink of obsession. Three men dominated her life - her brother Ronnie; Sam whose devotion to her was deep and loyal; and Don Dowling cruel and tormented who made it his life's ambition to possess her. And then one day a stranger came to the riverbank and Christine who attracted men merely by her presence found herself changed beyond recall. . .