Storm Over Windmere — Cynthia Alcott

An isolated mansion on the coast of Long Island; a troubled young girl in a household of malicious servants and greedy relatives; and a handsome widower who might have murdered his wife - this is the dangerous mixture that confronts Joan Powers when she is hired as companion to motherless, ten-year-old Drew Vance.

Joan knew that her wisest choice was to leave, immediately, but the child is desperately in need of help, and against all her inner warnings, Joan has fallen in love with Drew's father, Larry Vance.

Joan, however, cannot ignore the threats, the attempts on her life, and on Drew's. Nor can she ignore the possibility that the man she has come to love is either a helpless victim of evil forces too powerful to control - or the madman behind them.