The Saracen Gardens — Mary Kay Simmons

Where love flowered into diabolical evil

Escape Into Fear!

Jean Phillips' young life had been torn apart by her brief marriage. Divorced, she fled across the country to Los Angeles, where she settled in a bungalow in the Saracen Gardens, a faded relic of Hollywood's past.

A first Jean's fellow guests seemed charming people as they gathered around the hotel swimming pool. So when Jean felt drawn to the most attractive man there, she did not try to resist his powerful sensuality. Then slowly Jean began to suspect the truth about this perverse group who had so eagerly made her one of them, and this man who dominated her life. For Jean was theirs now, body and soul -- and what they wanted from her was horrifying past all sane imagining....