The Death Beads

Released from a hellish marriage by her husband's accidental death, Shelly Walters sought refuge from her memories in the craggy beauty of the Cascade mountains in the Northwest. There, with her old friend, Deah, an amateur archeologist, she shared a remote mountain cottage. And with her new friend David, a young newspaperman, Shelly hoped to forget the past and find a new, more joyful life.

But there was not time for such meditative pursuits. From the moment Shelly stumbled across the body of a murdered man in the woods to the strange masquerade party celebrating death that climaxed the incredible happenings, there was time only to wonder and fear and finally to flee…from death itself.