The Legacy of Hunter House — Jeri Smith

DON'T IGNORE THE WARNINGS, JENNY.. .

To be hired as governess to wealthy Alexander Hunter was a dream opportunity for Jenny DeVries. But her arrival at his forbidding estate signalled the start of a perilous nightmare.

For the sinister servants at Hunter House were all too willing to unveil its wicked secrets. Secrets of Hunter's former governess and her sudden disappearance into the night. Of Jenny's charge, Phillippe--a boy so young, so fair, and so suspicious of his father's dark motives. And of the madness behind the murder of Alexander Hunter's beautiful wife .. .

Yet with each new mystery, Jenny found herself inexorably drawn into the shadows of Hunter House and seduced into the crushing embrace of its enigmatic master. Was she fated to become Hunter's precious new love? Or to be betrayed in a maze of diabolical family crime?