The second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the terrifying incidents that took place as she started her new life as the young bride of a husband she hardly knew with these words, ushering the reader into an isolated grey stone home on the windswept Cornish shore. The reason being that every room contained ghosts of a past that had passed but had not been forgotten, a past that had been devotedly preserved by the evil housekeeper Mrs. Danvers: a suite that was immaculate and untouched, clothes that were ready to be worn but had not yet been worn by any of the current residents of the great house. The second Mrs. de Winter walked in the shadow of her enigmatic predecessor, aiming to unearth the most sinister secrets and destroy the illusions of good and evil.