In half-hearted collusion with a neighbor desperate to find a runaway husband, architect Etta Baxter agrees to vacation on the mid-California coast in the sleepy town of Satyr's Graze, where she steps into a magnificent stone house with a monster on the outside in the form of a gargoyle and discovers there might be a monster lurking on the inside as well. The possibility of a peaceful retreat vanishes as event after event places Etta at the center of conflict. She becomes part of a blood-soaked crime and meets a family she won't soon forget, particularly when one of the owners, a wheelchair...
In half-hearted collusion with a neighbor desperate to find a runaway husband, architect Etta Baxter agrees to vacation on the mid-California coast in...
A desperate search for diamonds on an island with a history of murder and insanity leads Sutton De Berg and her adopted older brother Gerard Brach to remember feelings they suppressed years ago. But Sutton's father, the wealthy Edward De Berg, and her French husband, Paul Dubois, have nefarious plans for any treasures found on the island, and the ghosts that haunt the atoll will wreak havoc and take lives before its deeper truth is revealed, more dangerous than any of them ever imagined.
A desperate search for diamonds on an island with a history of murder and insanity leads Sutton De Berg and her adopted older brother Gerard Brach to ...