Handsome young artist Quentin Collins arrives at his newly inherited estate of Collinwood with his beautiful wife Tracy. They meet the housekeeper Carlotta Drake and the caretaker Gerard Stiles. Quentin happens upon a 19th-century portrait of a blonde woman with captivating green eyes that seem to mesmerize him. Carlotta informs him that the woman is Angelique Bouchard Collins, who had lived there over 100 years earlier. The Collins's friends Alex and Claire Jenkins, who have co-written several successful Horror fiction, move into a cottage on the estate.