In the days when the town of Cockermouth still had a railway line running through it Jim Sandy came one morning to the station. He was a police cadet based at Cockermouth, but he had a plan to travel by train to London to search for a different job. That day, however, his world was turned upside down when he met the beautiful Susan Dalmane, the Countess of Saint Helens, at Cockermouth station. And when Susan offered him an invitation that he cold not refuse he found himself embarking on a journey which was to bring him ultimately to Susan's home, Rhodes Castle.
