Uneasy Paradise — Norah Lofts

Santa Maria was home to Lindoa Ransom. She had been born there, and had spent a happy childhood on the lush, sun-baked Caribbean island. The one thing she wanted more that anything else was to return......

When the opportunity came to a position as governess on the island she was overjoyed - full of anticipation for her new life.

But somehow things began to go wrong.........her ten-year-old pupil proved to be a spoilt, undisciplined child.......the friends she remembered from the past seemed to be distant and afraid.....and the island itself had changed.....Santa Maria that had been such a happy place was now sinister and dangerous......dangerous even to Linda Ransom........