Bayou Road — Mignon G. Eberhart

A STRANGER IN THE NIGHT...

A sense of eerie foreboding seemed to creep right into the Chastain mansion in New Orleans. Young Marcy Chastain couldn't blame it on the war that had radically changed her life or even the disturbingly handsome officer who was billeted in her home. No, the terrifying feeling that she was being watched came from noises in the dark sultry night, from furtive shadows in the courtyard outside her bedroom window.

But she never expected someone to murder the man her family wanted her to marry or for her dashing Major Farrell to be the prime suspect. Suddenly Marcy found herself swept into a mystery tied to secrets buried deep in her Creole heritage--and to a rendezvous with love and violence under the Spanish moss along the Bayou Road...