The Laird and the Lady // Castle Cloud — Joan Grant

The story of an American heiress who meets a Scottish laird in a crumbling French chateau turns from high romance to ghost story as the courageous Marylda uses her 'second sight' to unravel the mysteries of Castle Cloud.

Traveling alone to France from her native America, Marylda meets and falls in love with Rowan Cairdrie, handsome young laird of ancient Castle Cloud. After their whirlwind courtship and marriage, Rowan takes his bride to his ancestral home on the lonely Scottish highlands.

Isolated in the ghost-ridden castle with her husband's enigmatic grandmother, Marylda, driven by forces she cannot explain, finds herself preying into an ancient family mystery shrouded in a suffocating atmosphere of evil.

Suddenly aware of how little she really knows about her husband, Marylda discovers that she holds the key to a Pandora's box brimming over with hate, greed, and murder, as the ghosts of a violent past clutch at her with icy fingers.

Also published as: Castle Cloud