One Five Three Oakland Street — Dora Highland

A FLIGHT DOWN THE DARK CORRIDORS OF EVIL

An enticing offer lured her to the towering mansion -- personal secretary to the fabulously wealthy recluse Thomas Carlin Cord and companion to his beautiful and talented daughter. For young orphaned Laurette Mannering it meant a dream-life in secluded Victorian splendor -- until she woke to a flame-filled room and a shattering revelation: someone was trying to kill her! From that moment her world became a spinning tunnel of blind terror -- and she the helpless prey of a poisonous evil that would not rest until it had claimed her for its own…