The Man for Me // The Shrouded Tower — Theresa Charles

Romira Brompton returned home to find her stepsister Sylvie vanished from their apartment. And when at last she traced the whereabouts of that beautiful but fickle girl, she found a more disturbing development. -- Sylvie believed herself to be the heiress of a vast estate and she was now living there, engaged to the sardonically handsome Mellion in a house filled with dark undercurrents. For it was a house where . . .

a young girl had mysteriously drowned . . .

a lovely woman was slowly wasting away . . .

a disturbing young man was claiming Romira's heart

after but a few hours meeting . . .

Romira knew she would leave Fercombe Manor before she too became hopelessly involved, but could she abandon Sylvie to the romantic mercies of a man who may have slain his first wife?