At the great Cornwall estate of Manderley, Maxim de Winter and his frightened new wife try to live with the haunting legacy of Maxim's first wife, the beautiful and cold Rebecca, who died in a sailing accident. The heroine and narrator marries an English aristocrat, Maxim de Winter. They are deeply in love, but the memory of Max's first wife, Rebecca, lingers on. Little by little the mystery of Rebecca's life and death is revealed. - Publisher.