The Tower Room — Cynthia Van Hazinga

STEP-BY-STEP SHE MOVED TOWARD THE ROOM THAT HELD A THOUSAND TERRORS

Impressionable young Giola Peterson came to the gloomy Roman palace to meet her Italian grandmother, now her only living relative. Giola fell in love with Rome, but she was unnerved by the strange, aloof behavior of her grandmother and by Visconti, the elegant, sinister man who controlled the household, filling it was his bizarre circle of friends.

Then supernatural evil began to engulf the high-walled palazzo. An unsigned letter led Giola on a terrible journey, so that at last she knew that if she followed Visconti into the death-shadowed Tower Room, she might never be seen or heard from again. And yet she was compelled -- even at the risk of her life -- to enter that topmost room to discover its terrifying secrets.