The House of Clouds — Helen Lee Poole

The wild but enchanting beauty of the New Mexican mountain country awed Abbie Warren. She would have been completely hapy to make the great rambling hacienda called the House of Clouds her home...except for the sinister forces that seemed to poison the very air around it. -- Why was her uncle, Charles Warren, living in fear under an assumed name? What was the real reason for the frequent visits of Sheriff Vale Barton? Who was the enigmatic Fernando Telano, who came in the night to make mysterious threats? What was behind the erratic behavior of the lovely dona Elena Uvalde?

These and other questions plagued Abbie, a stranger and afraid in a strange land, where the darkness seemed to gather in coils of danger. There seemed to be no answers...and no place to flee?