Always in August — Ann Head

PASSION AND HATE...JEALOUSY AND VENGEANCE...WERE HIDDEN BEHIND THE GREAT WALLED ESTATE OF MENLO....

It was August again, and Gloria was returning to Menlo. Gloria, with her stunning beauty and vast wealth, who hungered for everything that belonged to Lucy - even Lucy's husband. Lucy could only wait in dread of what menace Gloria would unleash in this place of haunting beauty and mounting terror - of what evil she would bring to Lucy's life and to the man Lucy loved and knew she could not hold....

A SINISTER OLD MANSION A WOMAN IN DEADLY PERIL A SECRET THAT COULD BE KEPT NO LONGER

Lucy Fenwick was determined to get to the bottom of the ominous mystery surrounding the death of the late master of Menlo, the great Southern estate she had loved since childhood.

But Gloria McGill, the current mistress of Menlo, resented Lucy's probings into the sudden death of her husband. Gloria had always wanted to be mistress of Menlo, and when her husband conveniently died she ruled at last!

Daring her safety, her own marriage, even her sanity, Lucy pursued her investigation.