River Rising — Jessica North

A LEGACY OF SHAME AND DEADLY PERIL


Rochelle Dumont was returning to the home she had never known--the great family estate of River Rising, looming high, lonely, and forbidding above the swirling, plunging waters of the St. Lawrence.


Even before she arrived to be greeted by the warm embrace of her aged great-aunt and the icy hostility of the other household members, Rochelle sensed the danger of this place where her mother had desperately fled.


But already Rochelle had come too far and as yet knew too little to turn back. And all too soon it would be too late to escape the unspeakable horror--as guilt from beyond the grave and passion outside all conventions conspired to possess and destroy her...