Portrait of Emma — Lillian Cheatham

PRISONER OF FORTUNE

Young and orphaned, Emma Ashton thought it was sheer chance that brought her to Pride House in Boston to be a servant to the widow Silence Southwick and her two daughters, Patience and Honor. The times were troubled in the stormy years after the American Revolution, and Emma counted herself fortunate to find this haven from loneliness and want.

But as time passed, and Emma grew to lovely young womanhood, she began to suspect that not luck but diabolical design had placed her in this house of murder, macabre mystery and supernatural horror. And now she felt that same unknown hand imprisoned her in a tightening grip of terror as she learned the nightmare truth about her past, her present and her fearful future…