Dark Shadows at Bitterhill — Paulette Warren

THE BLACK INTRUDER...

The arms of darkness reached out for Beatrice Wenning. Young David Bitterhill had come north, had pleased her wealthy family and won her heart...yet to join him at the Bitterhills' island home in Pelico Swamp terrified her. It was not David but the recorded saga of the long-dead Duncan, founder of the Bitterhill line, that inflamed her tortured mind: Duncan, slavemaster and murderer, said to have sailed a ship with black sails through a crimson fog and made a pact with the Devil. Could it have been true? Were all the Bitterhills now cursed and, with them, Beatrice herself? A strange compulsion drove her south, into David's arms; she had to find out. And then Beatrice met the others in the swamp, dark beings seeking revenge for an ancient crime. And she knew in a moment the blinding truth: she faced not a life of love, not even a merciful death, but the wings of madness....