However the passions of the white masters and their restless slaves, on the brink of emancipation, are at boiling point. As hurricane winds and forbidden drums sweep the island, all secrets are laid bare.

    Arabel, a young woman of good family, runs away and takes a position as a governess in the household of a glowering widower, where she salvages his motherless and seemingly unwanted little girl, and investigates the mysterious room of the long gone Lady Ingram's room, to determine what really happened to her.

    

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    It seems strange that I could have been so blind about them... Even then, right at the beginning, there were odd little signs that should have warned me. A spirit of neighborliness prompted lovely Sarah Vernon to welcome the Grangers to Hill Side; the need for money to pay her mother's medical expenses compelled her to become governess to Rebecca Granger. Beginning with the instructions to cater to the child rather than educate her, Sarah became increasingly aware that all was not as it seemed in this strange family: Mrs. Granger, a hard, cold woman with a secret she'd go to any lengths to protect; Edward, whose warm, friendly nature concealed something far different; and David, handsome and arrogant, afraid to acknowledge his own emotions...Blinded by her love, Sarah became the target of an evil born of desperation, as she searched for the terrifying truth that was The Shadow Between .