This Strange Adventure — Mary Roberts Rinehart

Wedded To Terror

Young and beautiful Missie Colfax was willing to keep her bargain with Wesley Dexter when she married this worldly older man and came to live in his magnificent mansion. She would do anything to escape the poverty and want of her youth -- even be a wife to a man she hardly knew.

Missie could not suspect the twisted torment behind the icy arrogance of her bridegroom…nor realize until too late the horror that awaited her in the hands of a man bent on making her the victim of a strange and terrible vengeance…