Child of Satan — Melissa Napier

The Dark Power of Hate

It was a chance meeting on a train that brought pretty Leslie Villiers to Warwick, the splendid old country house where George Harmon and his nine-year-old daughter Vicki lived. Leslie liked George and was happy to become his daughter's governess, but she found the house full of dark foreboding and strange people-of whom the strangest was Vicki herself. The little girl seemed old beyond her years, as if she had seen great suffering--or perhaps even inflicted it.

As Leslie felt the dark power of hate growing about her, every moment she spent at Warwick became saturated with terror. This house, these people, this adorable child--could they all be possessed by some malevolent spirit?