Lady in Darkness — Evelyn Bond

The past was a misty blank.

Everyone in the looming old house was a stranger to her -- including the man who claimed to be her husband.

She couldn't even be sure that she was not a criminal, shocked into amnesia by some evil act of her own.

Everywhere she turned, doors were barred to her, and no hand was lifted to help her.

How could she escape -- when she didn't even know what she had to escape from?

The house called Afton was on the crest of the hill, and the wild winds wailed through the chambers like mad, lonely sirens. People lost their minds there, the neighbors said. Is that why Ellen could not remember the days she had already spent there? When she awoke in a barred hospital room, her memory gone, her past shattered, the man they said was her husband was a stranger to her, Whit Diamond. Had she loved him once, this dark, brooding man? It seemed hard to believe.

The house called Afton. A pretty name, pastoral, tranquil. And yet, the name began to mean a sort of hell, and icy spot in an endless nightmare. The past was a misty blank and she was a Lady In Darkness