The Root of Evil — Frances Y. McHugh

“Poor little rich girl,” Gloria Graylock married the man Carol Benson had hoped to marry. Now someone was determined to destroy the blonde heiress, and only Carol had a chance to save her…

Girl on the Run…

Jilted by the man she loved, Carol Benson quit her job and flew to Paris to forget. But instead of escaping the past, she headed for a fateful reunion with her former sweetheart, Mark Preston; and the bride's father, advertising executive Hobart Graylock who also happened to be Carol's ex-boss. Another girl might have been glad to hear Mark admit that his weeks-old marriage was a mistake, but not Carol. And she was shocked at the change in Gloria: the blonde beauty looked ill and miserable. Was Mark responsible for that, or did it have something to do with the dark stranger, Paul Thireau, who showed uninvited -- and unwanted -- at a party in the Prestons' honor. When Hobart Graylock decided his daughter needed a rest at his chateau on the Riviera and asked Carol to go with her, impulsively she agreed -- for Mark's sake -- never dreaming her kind gesture would put the unhappy bride and herself in deadly danger…


Original Title: High on a Hill