Three Minutes to Midnight — Mildred Davis

YOUR NAME IS BLAIR PROCTER, YOU ARE AFRAID, AND IT'S THREE MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT....

Yesterday you were a lovely, unspoiled girl of twenty-one, with a future as unclouded as your past. That was before you saw your mother killed and your father mentally destroyed in a weird, inexplicable accident. That was before you had to become guardian to your three younger sisters in your once-happy home. That was before you started getting looks of pity from your neighbors, and unwelcome attentions from a brutal yet disturbingly fascinating young man.

That was before you realized that someone in this cheerful, comfortable suburban community -- someone perhaps very close to you -- wanted you and your sisters dead....