Harriet, the Haunted — Katheryn Kimbrough

Lovely young Harriet was the picture of innocence - yet within her seethed a secret that filled her with shame, and threatened her with madness and death.

Growing up on a lush Southern plantation, Harriet had been victim of a violent act that ripped her innocence from her, and left her with a mind clouded by that unspeakable event. Now years later Harriet hoped that time had healed her ghastly emotional wound, and that she was free to give herself to the handsome suitor who offered her his love and the Phenwick name. Then Harriet discovered the terrifying truth. The satanic spirit of the man who had caused her so much misery was reaching out from beyond the grave to claim her once again with his passion, and torture her with his eternal vengeance. And not even love seemed able to protect the most horror-haunted of all the Phenwick women from this diabolical possession and the hellish abyss that opened up to claim her....