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Through a nosy employment agency, Julia Ross secures employment with a wealthy widow, Mrs. Hughes, and goes to live at her house. Two days later, she awakens in a different house, in different clothes, and with a new identity. She's told she is the daughter-in-law of Mrs. Hughes and has suffered a nervous breakdown. Is Julia really "Julia", or is it true that she's lost all memory of who she is?—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>

In London, Julia Ross is totally broke and unsuccessfully seeking a job. Her previous love affair with lawyer Dennis Bruce has ended and he has just gotten engaged to another woman. When she sees an advertisement in a newspaper in the boarding house where she lives, she goes to the employment agency and is interviewed by Mrs. Sparkes. When she learns that Julia is alone in London with neither relatives nor boyfriend, she offers her a position of private secretary with the wealthy Mrs. Hughes and her son Ralph. Julia is immediately hired and Mrs. Hughes tells that she must move to her house that night. When Julia goes to Mrs. Mackie's boarding house to pack, she learns that Dennis has called off his wedding; they schedule a date for the next Friday and she goes to the house. Two days later Julia wakes up at a seaside manor in Cornwall and is told that she is Marion Hughes, the wife of Ralph, who is unstable due to a nervous breakdown and delusional. She learns that Ralph has killed Marion and now she is his alibi. Further he is plotting a scheme to kill her as if she had committed suicide. What can Julia do to save her life?—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Julia Ross is a young woman alone in the world and in search of a job. She is hired by elderly Mrs. Hughes to act as her live-in personal secretary. One of Mrs. Hughes' stipulations is that whomever she hires treat this job as one of a long-term nature, meaning no current boyfriends or marriage on the horizon. The closest person to Julia was Dennis Bruce, who lived at the same boarding-house and was somewhat sweet on her but left her for another woman, so she is grateful for her new job. When she awakens after her first night in the Hughes home, she learns she has been asleep for two days. She is no longer in the urban London home she knows as Mrs. Hughes' home, but in a sprawling, isolated seaside estate in Cornwall. All evidence of her being Julia Ross has disappeared, and everyone in the house, including Mrs. Hughes, her son Ralph, and all the household servants, try to convince her that she is Marion Hughes, Ralph's wife, who is recovering from a nervous breakdown. Julia is certain of who she is, and suspects that the Hugheses will kill her--but why? Julia is alone with no one to support her claim and help her; the Hugheses have made her seem crazy to whomever she has spoken. However, initially unknown to the Hugheses, Dennis Bruce, who ended up not getting married, returned to the boarding-house just before Julia's departure and made a date with her. Since she didn't keep the date, he goes looking for her.—Huggo