The Carson Inheritance — Dorothy Daniels

WILL ADA CARSON'S TWENTY-FIRST BIRTHDAY BE CELEBRATED WITH A PARTY -- OR MOURNED WITH A FUNERAL?

Finding a warning letter -- in the handwriting of her dead mother -- strikes terror in Ada's heart. Already suspicious that her stepfather and his two children were responsible for her mother's mysterious death, Ada now fears that some supernatural force menaces her own life in the huge mansion.

The last of the Carson line, Ada is due to inherit control of the family fortune on her twenty-first birthday, just weeks away. She is frightened, for both her brothers died -- accidentally and mysteriously -- just days before they became twenty-one.

Then her fear turns to terror when she finds a tombstone with her name on it and a date -- her twenty-first birthday!


WOULD HER TWENTY-FIRST BIRTHDAY BE MARKED WITH A TOMBSTONE

From the time a statue of her appeared beside the other markers in the family graveyard, Ada Caron had reason to fear for her life. Like her brothers before her, she was destined to come into control of her father's huge estate as soon as she turned twenty-one -- but neither of her brothers had reached their majority. Each died suddenly, mysteriously, before his birthday.

Now Ada had reason to believe that her birthday would pass in the same tragic manner. Her mother was dead: her mother's second husband and his children were penniless -- the motives for her murder were clearly evident.

And her birthday was drawing closer…