Millie has had a terrifying vision: In less than two years, the dam which holds back the river running through the happy valley of Kilmer will burst! It will release an enormous mass of water, and the flood will destroy everything in its path, leaving only ruin and desolation.

A vision is only a vision – but young Millie is special. She has escaped only recently from the circus to which she was sold when still a baby, and was discovered, half-dead of cold, on the doorstep of a village home. And her visions have always come true.

Always?! No: in once case, she saw the wrong color for a car which had been involved in a fatal traffic accident. A tiny detail, but one which will set the wheels turning for a diabolically tangled plot!

This is the first investigation of Forester Hill, a police officer of New Salem — recently found innocent of the murder of his wife, the beautiful rising Hollywod star Dana Anderson.