The Ivory Tower — Marjorie Eatock

Torn Apart

The telegram that told Jean Esterbrook that she was now heiress to Esterbrook House gave the young girl no hint of the horror hidden in the huge and forbidding mansion.

Two men waited for her there. One was handsome and elegant, calling himself her protector even as his hypnotic voice caressed her like a lover. The other was dark and angry, a man who insulted her even as he molded her to his passionate will. Which of them could she trust? The answer spelled the difference between life and death and Jean struggled in the tentacles of a past that would not die, and a curse that could kill…