Widow's Walk — Mary Bishop

THE MINISTER'S DAUGHTER

Pretty young Nancy Douglas had led a sheltered life in her father's parsonage. But her father was dead now, and Nancy was alone and afraid in a world she knew little of.

Eagerly Nancy accepted an offer to take care of the two little children of Adam Waitt, a New England sea captain away on a distant voyage. But even before Adam returned to the mansion of Widow's Walk, Nancy had heard enough about the horrifying death of his wife to fear this man. For Adam Waitt, it was said, was a devious charmer - and heaven itself could not save any woman who fell under his spell.

Then one terrifying day Adam appeared - and Nancy knew the rumors were true and the desperate, deadly danger was real....