The coachman tried to warnher away from the ruined, forbidding  place on the rainswept Cornish coast. But young Mary Yellan chose  instead to honor her mother`s dying request that she join her frightened  Aunt Patience and huge, hulking Uncle Joss Merlyn at Jamaica Inn. From  her first glimpse on that raw November eve, she could sense the inn`s  dark power. But never did Mary dream that she would become hopelessly  ennared in the vile, villainous schemes being hatched within its  crumbling walls or that a handsome, mysterious stranger would so incite  her passions... tempting her to love a man whom she dares not trust.