Rosevean — Iris Bromige

The Dictated Heart
AS a young companion to Gemma Pendine, a young heiress, Ann Forrester lived in the beautiful mansion of Rosevean. But Ann found that behind the beauty was a twisted ugliness. Rosevean was ruled over by the autocratic Alice Pendine, who used her iron will and fabulous fortune to intimidate her family and servants. Alice had made up her mind that Gemma would marry Rex Vernon, and she would use her power and money to insure it. Only Gemma didn't love Rex-And did...

SOMETHING SINISTER PURSUED ANN FORRESTER AT BLEAK ROSEVEAN…

SOMETHING THAT MADE HER SLEEP IN FEAR AND WAKE IN TERROR!

Ann Forrester came to Rosevean, a gloomy Gothic mansion, as the personal assistant to its iron-willed mistress, Mrs. Pendine.

At first Ann's duties were routine. Suddenly she realized that Rosevean was a house riddled with jealousy, secrets and menace.

But it wasn't until Mrs. Pendine's strange death that the tentacles of Rosevean reached out to Ann herself, strangling her slowly and surely in its fatal grip…