Evelyn, the Ambitious — Katheryn Kimbrough

Grinding poverty and sadistic cruelty were all that beautiful, talented Evelyn Jackson had known from earliest girlhood on. Now in the home of her wealthy aunt, and under the spell of the two dazzlingly seductive Phenwick heirs who vied for Evelyn's hand, she at last felt freed from the nightmare that had been her life, and from the perverse power of a father who wore the cloth of God to do the Devil's work. Little did Evelyn dream what the price of her ambitions would be...what the fulfillment of her desires could cost...until the fiendish furies of her family past joined with the all-corrupting curse of the Phenwick clan to show the terrified young woman how frail a bulwark was love against a monstrous battering ram of evil...