House of the Strange Woman — Monica Heath

"THE EVIL SEED MUST DIE....!"

the madman's voice had whispered as, cloaked in the blackness of death, he pursued lovely young Carey McKee down treacherous mountain paths....How could these nightmare attacks be happening to her? What creature of darkness had sworn vengeance against an innocent girl?

When her two aunts had died, Carey had been left with barely enough money to book passage west in search of her long-vanished father. But on the riverboat she met darkly handsome Regan O'Reilly, who told her that her father, Locke, was dead and warned Carey that California was no place for a woman alone. Perhaps she should have heeded Regan's words, but without money or family, Carey had no other choice. And so she came to the home of her father's second wife, never imagining that there in a quiet mountain glade a being called Death was waiting for her....