Nightfall — Dorothy Daniels

On the soft summer night of a lavish dinner and ball, one of the plantation's barns was set ablaze -- and utterly destroyed. A warning, perhaps, of worse to come? Then the master of the household was dead, impaled on his own rapier. And his 19-year-old twin daughters were left orphans, facing a future that would bring them danger, misunderstanding, and love...a future complicated by the venomous hatred of a scheming woman who would stop at nothing -- not even murder -- to gain possession of the plantation and destroy its lovely heiresses!