A governess becomes entangled with a dysfunctional and dangerous family in this novel by a New York Times -bestselling " master of suspense" (Mary Higgins Clark).
Her charge is Leila Drew, the oppressed teenage daughter of a pathologically punishing m.
Croix.
Finally liberated from her cruel and domineering mother, twenty-eight-year-old schoolteacher Jessica Abbott has accepted a position as governess in Hampden House, a crumbling plantation on the cliffs of St.
A governess becomes entangled with a dysfunctional and dangerous family in this novel by a New York Times -bestselling " master of suspense" (Mary Higgins Clark)