Dark Cypress — Edwina Noone

It was a promising teaching position that brought pretty young Stella Owens to magnificent Hawk House. But her charge, Todd Hawk, was a strange and frightened child, obsessed with guilt for his brother Oliver's death. -- Todd's handsome, tormented father, Arthur Hawk, had banished all trace of Oliver from his home - but someone in the household was dedicated to keeping the boy's memory alive.

Swept up by emotions she could not control, Stella fought desperately to solve the mystery behind Oliver's death - only to find herself an unwanted intruder, prey to the evil that haunted Hawk House . . .