When Jean Gordon returned to Cliffhaven after her mother's strange suicide, she expected resentment from the two women vying for her father's affections.
But she found more to fear than human jealousy. Someone in the old house was trying to drive her to madness and death. Was it really the ghost of Rachel Hawkins, a long-dead ancestor, as local gossip claimed? Or was it something more human?
Jean began to doubt her own sanity in the evil old house where she could trust no one, not even her own father.
William Edward Daniel Ross, W. E. Daniel "Dan" Ross (1912-1995) was a bestselling Canadian novelist from Saint John, New Brunswick who wrote over 300 books in a variety of genres and under a variety of mostly female pseudonyms such as Laura Frances Brooks, Lydia Colby, Rose Dana, Jan Daniels, Ross Olin, Diane Randall, Clarissa Ross, Leslie Ames, Ruth Dorset, Ann Gilmer, Jane Rossiter, Dan Ross, Dana Ross, Marilyn Ross, Dan Roberts, and W.E.D. Ross. As Marilyn Ross he wrote popular Gothic fiction including a series of novels about the vampire Barnabas Collins based on the American TV series Dark Shadows (1966-71).