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House Malign — Julie Wellsley
DEADLY REFUGE
Vanessa thought she had found a sanctuary with the Venner family, a place she could forget the nightmares of the past. There were James Venner, a simple, bluff country squire, kindly Mrs. Venner, their daughter Mary, and brilliant young Tarquin, whom Vanessa was to coach on the violin. Aside from Tarquin's genius, the Venners seemed utterly, almost absurdly, normal, and the moors of Devon were filled with peace and quiet. And nearby there was Roderick Egan...
But things are rarely what they seem. For all their beauty, the moors turned out to be treacherous, and there was something profoundly sinister about the Venners. Not peace, but fear and horror, came to Vanessa in the night...and she found herself inexorably drawn toward madness and death - while Tarquin fiddled a Danse Macabre...
Vanessa thought she had found a sanctuary with the Venner family, a place she could forget the nightmares of the past. There were James Venner, a simple, bluff country squire, kindly Mrs. Venner, their daughter Mary, and brilliant young Tarquin, whom Vanessa was to coach on the violin. Aside from Tarquin's genius, the Venners seemed utterly, almost absurdly, normal, and the moors of Devon were filled with peace and quiet. And nearby there was Roderick Egan...
But things are rarely what they seem. For all their beauty, the moors turned out to be treacherous, and there was something profoundly sinister about the Venners. Not peace, but fear and horror, came to Vanessa in the night...and she found herself inexorably drawn toward madness and death - while Tarquin fiddled a Danse Macabre...