Climb a Dark Cliff — Kay Ashby

Fortress of Evil

Once Sea Cliffs had been of the great show places of the California coast. That was before its embittered master built a high stone wall around it topped by jagged glass ... before he shut the world out of his estate, and let evil fester within.

Young Leah Carstairs came to Sea Cliffs as a guest, to recover from the tragic loss of her parents. But all too soon she realized that she had really been invited to play the part of pawn in a sinister gam ... that the man she loved might be her most deadly enemy ... that it was certain death to try to escape and to stay might be even worse...