House of Fury — Joanne Creighton

Two Men in a Mansion of Menace

Pretty American Laura Ward thought to spend a carefree holiday at her college friend Jule Amberton's family estate in Argentina. But from the moment the great wrought iron gates of the Casa Rosada closed with a shivering ring behind her, Laura felt a shudder of fear run through her young body.

Julie had two brothers. One was ruggedly handsome, the other darkly good-looking, and both made Laura tremble at their touch. Confused, bewildered, lost and threatened in a maze of intrigue and violence, Laura knew that one of the brothers hoped to save her, the other wanted to destroy her - but she could not tell her lover from her deadly enemy...

A NIGHTMARE COME TRUE

Laura shook her pretty young head, trying to clear the cobwebs from her confused brain. Where was she? What had happened to her?

Dim images flashed through her memory…the careening ride as her car tried to flee her mysterious pursuers…the screeching wheels as the car was forced to a halt…the rough men who seized her…the exotically beautiful woman who injected a drug into her arm…

Now Laura looked around the strange and barren room that was her prison and heard the thudding footsteps of her unknown captors outside and tried to tell herself this was not real, it was a passing nightmare.

Then the door swung open, and Laura felt a scream rising in her throat…