The Hounds of Carvello — Frances Cowen

Only the uncanny sound of the baying hounds gave any hint to the evil that cursed the Carvello family.

Did the Marchesa Carvello guess what might be going on under the palazzo roofs, or the evil which threatened to descend on the ancient family whose roots lay in blood long dried, whose future now lacked permanence?

Longing to escape the dull familiarity of her father's home in England, Harriet agrees to go to the great Carvello palace in Italy to take her cousin Ann's place as governess to the Carvello children. But how could Harriet know she would be thrown into the midst of strange and frightening events, and herself be involved in the tragedy that haunts the Carvello family....