Patricia, the Beautiful — Katheryn Kimbrough

Stunningly beautiful and aristocratic Patricia Kelburn was transported worlds away from the lush Southern plantation where she had been raised. For reasons unclear to her, she was sent to the very private girls' finishing school of La Chenille in far-away Boston to be prepared for her future.

Soon Patricia began to realize she was not a pupil but a prisoner in this strange establishment ruled by a lady with a dubious past, and filled with shocking intrigue and chilling danger. But worse was yet to come. For it was in a yet more distant and lonely place - the great and fearful mansion of the Phenwicks - that Patricia came face to face with the diabolical destiny designed for her, and with the powerful and perverse man who would not let her escape....