She's come to stay for a while, with hopes to meet some of her relatives, and work on an illustrated book of wild flowers. But soon after she arrives in Norway unusual things begin to happen. Her hotel room is no longer available, someone had sent a note to cancel it. She hires a driver to take her to Tordendal, and along the way he shoves her over a cliff in an attempt to kill her. When that fails, the cottage where she is supposed to spend her time in Tordendal burns to the ground ... and then she meets again the mysterious man from the Mjosa Steamer ... only to find he is Paul Ringstad, widower of her late cousin, Gina, and father to the very somber little girl called Juliana. Beth struggles to determine why someone would want to kill her ... what secrets does Tordendal hide that someone would do anything to protect?

    THE CURSEWhat was the secret shame that had driven India's proud father from England -- and made him so fanatically determined to shield his daughter from all knowledge of the world?What inner torment had turned India's Aunt Maude from a legendary young beauty into a hideously obese aging woman living out her days in bitterness and self-hate?What demonic danger now threatened India herself, as she discovered that she was torn between two handsome, iron-willed suitors -- each warning her of the other, and each demanding that she surrender herself body and soul to him alone?Somehow, the answer lay in the depths of the glowing black pearl necklace that held India in its hypnotic spell...

    

    One moment she was Bernadette Tyson, a beautiful eighteen-year-old orphan raised by the nuns of St. Brigid's Convent. The next moment handsome young lawyer Robert Douglas was telling her she might be Bernadette MacDonald, the granddaughter of a wealthy Canadian mine owner. Before long, Bernadette found herself at her grandfather's home meeting her new family. But evil fortune seemed to pursue Bernadette at the isolated mansion. First there was the open hostility with which her newfound cousins greeted her. Then there was the eerie night visitor, beckoning Bernadette to some unknown destiny. And when a bizarre series of "accidents" nearly claimed her life, Bernadette realized that her new happiness could end in a tragedy from which neither Robert nor her grandfather might be able to protect her...