When Lord Victor Manchester found her, all alone in the world and suffering from hunger and exposure, his generous offer of a position seemed like the answer to Juliet's prayers.But Windbrace Hall proved even more inhospitable than the savage moors. For its turreted walls sheltered an unknown enemy who immediately recognized the locket Juliet wore, and knew the dark secret it concealed.Her safe haven had become a prison where she could trust no one, least of all the handsome master of Windbrace Hall himself.

    An orphan now, and destitute, Anna was filled with foreboding about the sister her father had mentioned only on his deathbed.When the schooner Tahoe reached the remote cove, and Anna looked up at the huge, barnlike house perched on the cliffs high above the lake, her fears grew. The stern, eccentric woman who claimed to be her aunt behaved erratically...then threateningly...and with a secrecy that aroused Anna's suspicions. But the more Anna learned about the strange midnight visitor, the furtive whispers in the shadowy house, and the older woman's dark ambitions and even darker secrets, the more danger she was in. Even the protective attentions of handsome Lyle Delany couldn't keep Anna safe. And if the schooner did not stop at Blackbriar Bay soon, there would be no escape for either of them...for the lake was wide and deep...

    When her father fell ill and passed away his will stated that if she were to receive her inheritance, she had but two options. Relocate to her aunt's household until her 25th birthday, or marry his old war friend's son.

    But her contentment was shattered when she witnessed the fatal stabbing of her mistress by a black-garbed intruder...and promised the dying woman she would protect her child. So when her ladyship's estranged husband, Lord Andrew Redruth, claimed the boy and took him to remote Cornwall, Tisha was honor-bound to go with them. But at gloomy Trelochen Towers, high on the cliffs above the roiling sea, somone wanted to harm Lord Andrew's small son--someone who would stop at nothing. Confused and terrified by the servants' whispered warnings, tormented by the love and suspicion that warred within her heart, Tisha desperately tried to protect young Wilton from his nightmares and sleepwalking and from the danger that seemed to lurk in every corner of the dark castle. Not even in Lord Andrew Redruth's arms could Tisha find solace, for a gathering storm of evil threatened Trelochen Towers and someone was bound to fall prey to its fury.

    But soon after her arrival it became clear that something was terribly wrong. Locked in a loveless marriage from the start, Drew Rockwell and his beautiful wife were now completely estranged by some terrible secret of the past. A secret that had left their small daughter, Blythe, screaming in fear at the sight of seemingly harmless moving patterns: the shifting shadows of leaves stirred by the wind, the dancing lights of a chandelier...Ariel knew she should leave this dark, foreboding house while she still had the chance but pity drew her to Blythe and passion bound her to the disturbingly handsome Drew. She was as helpless as they all were against the tides of hatred and tragedy that would sweep them into a vortex of sheer terror.