My Lady Evil — Parley J. Cooper

"Nina! Come away!" I pleaded. "Come down before the waves pull us into the seas!" But she did not obey. She turned her wet face up to mine. "Andre," she cried against the din of the waves and wind. "Andre, do you truly love me?"

"I love you! I love you more than life itself!" Her lips parted in satisfied smile that lingered about the corners of her mouth. The smile, her wet hair clinging to her face-the gave her a strange appearance. I filled with the same sense of foreboding.

I had sensed the morning I had approached her in the garden when she had clutched the blood-red book to her body and had reminded me of a black widow spider....

They were swept into a vortex of destruction -- ritual murder, bizarre death, and demonic evil!

ANDRE LAURENT -- a bitter, brooding young Frenchman, uprooted since the Napoleonic wars.

LADY NINA HARGRAVE -- beautiful daughter of one of England's wealthiest but strangest families.

ALEKSANDRE DENISOV -- the bearded Russian mystic whose eyes have seen other worlds.

Laurent warned his Lady of the terrible danger, but he could not save himself from a passion that grew more violent as his love deepened…a passion that haunted his steps from London to Palermo…from the walls of Bastille down to the flame-licked gates of Hell.