AND A PAST SHE NEVER KNEW.From far-off Tibet to England's rich countryside, this marvelously enchanting novel unfolds the incredible saga of a beautiful, young half-caste whose strange destiny pulls her into a world of love and terror--a worlds a mysterious power moves slowly toward her, threatening her sanity...and her life.

    — Before her stood the groom, Edward Liscombe, master of Liscombe Manor, his violent, wastrel past a scandal through the countryside, his sudden marriage an incredible surprise. — He was strong, handsome, yet as she looked up at him, Yasmin felt a sudden shiver, as cold and piercing as the wind off the moors. Already she had seen in his dark gaze spectres of a terrible past and the pain of an injury of which Edward refused to speak. But now she saw something else. Unmistakable in her loved one's eyes was hatred, black and unrelenting hatred -- and he was staring straight at her!

    Emily was a widow and when she and her daughter went to live in the house, she soon realizes that it has unearthly tenants! Even though the handsome Blair Morgan found it for her, she's not sure how much longer she can stay there!

    She would be a "friend" who would try to protect her from another scandalous involvement--like the one back in France.Alain was a generous and thoughtful employer. Victorine a bright and amusing companion. But Tamaris could not help wondering about the significance of the gold and enamel snake Victorine wore around her neck. Nor could she stop thinking about the fact that someone had been going through her belongings and leaving strange objects among them.Then one day Alain was forced to reveal the true story of Victorine's past. A past, Tamaris suspected, that would soon gain on the future and place everyone at Rancho del Sol under a shadow of constant fear..

    

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    And he had sworn that lovely young Sally Lane would die if she revealed his presence on the Landsdown estate to anyone. Was he a man or a demon? Sally didn't know or care. She only knew that he could mysteriously appear anywhere at any time, even in the Landsdown mansion itself! And she knew that whatever diabolical purpose had brought him there, no one could save her -- not her wealthy employer, Martin Landsdown, nor his handsome nephew Scott, who loved Sally and would do anything to protect her -- if she betrayed this evil stranger. So Sally kept her silent vigil of fear, little realizing the terrible doom her silence might bring upon everyone in THE HOUSE OF LANDSDOWN.

    But in spite of all her troubles, the loss of her aunt so soon after the deaths of her own parents, Cora was glad to be home and to see Joel again. Handsome lawyer Joel Lansing was only too happy to take over the management of all Cora's affairs, while making it plain that he felt much more that a business interest in her.It was Joel whom Cora told about the ghostly presence in the old house and the near brushes with death she had experienced since her return home. Joel swore he'd protect her from the evil force that seemed determined to claim the last of the Taylors. But even he couldn't be with Cora all the time, and ever so slowly the island trap began to close about her till it seemed there was no escaping the terrible destiny which had taken her family one by one...