Ursula, the Proud — Katheryn Kimbrough

She was strikingly beautiful, with a mind to match, and she ran away to New York rather than be sold by her uncle into a loveless marriage. At eighteen, Ursala Krugger was determined to make her mark in the world. She meant to discover the true behind her father's financial ruin and to squelch the rumor's that he had murdered her mother and brothers before committing suicide.

Once in New York, Ursala took a job as dresser to the lovely actress, Phyllis Burdock Phenwick, wife of Simon Phenwick. As Ursala's acquaintance with the Phenwick family began, so did a series of strange and frightening accidents. Then, suddenly, love entered the young beauty's life. And as did an overwhelming terror. Now, to take her place as an Phenwick woman, Ursala must somehow survive. For she was closer to death than she knew…