BE WARY OF THEM ALL!"Shy Megan Cooper was bold enough to answer the advertisement for a secretary in a London newspaper, but no sooner had she arrived on remote Harrow Island than her courage began to falter. Lord Ambrose Hawkins ruled his fogbound domain with a stern and unsmiling demeanor; the dark secrets of his mystery-enshrouded mansion were whispered in the village and in the echoing corridors of his vast estate.Not once but many times, Megan was warned that she should leave. Then the strange occurrences began: her bedside clock, always moved to the sitting room mantel; the sound of organ music when no one was at the keyboard; then a pair of hands around her throat...and a hideous shock in the high and shadowy bell tower. Terrified now, Megan had been drawn so deeply into the web of evil intrigue that there was no one she could trust...no place she dared to hide...no way to escape the stormswept island that had become her prison!

    Then she found the one man who could help her: Christian Reyeult, a rugged frontiersman whose seductive charms concealed his own dark secrets.

    But it was on the ship bound for America to claim her legacy that she lost her heart to attorney Forrest Singleton and agreed to become his bride...Yet from the moment she first glimpsed the castle's start, forbidding facade - gazing up into windows that seemed to stare back like dark, malevolent eyes - Charlotte was gripped by feelings of unease. In the jagged lightning, the turreted towers seemed to pierce the stormy sky like an ominous omen. And her grandmother's strange assortment of friends and relations made it clear she was not welcome at Villa Montelano. Then Charlotte saw the phantom figure suspended from a tree, head the strains of a haunting aria that followed her through the cavernous halls like a ghostly refrain.

    But after toiling as a governess in faraway New York for five long years, Deanna dared to return to Hunters Hall and the twin brother she missed so much. Surely the haunting ghosts of the past had been laid to rest by now. But the moment Deanna stepped off the train, she knew that coming home had been a mistake...and that her life was in deadly danger. Her brother and his wife kept their distance. A former suitor shocked her with his vicious words. Even the handsome new minister seemed to mistrust her. Then a visitor met a gruesome death in the garden...and Deanna was accused. Someone wanted her to leave Hunters Hall - and would stop at nothing to silence her - permanently!