Tree of Evil — Roberta Morrison

Pursued by danger, Nell Jordan risks her future to uncover strange secrets of the Drakewoods' past! Nell Jordan expects her commission to write a history of the Drakewoods, one of t Hawaii's leading families, to be a routine assignment. But from the moment she sees the hideous banyan tree in front of the eerie Drakewood mansion, she feels smothered by an aura of fear and horror. Time and again her life is threatened, her sanity tormented, as she delves deeper into the family's record of madness and sudden death. Who in that houseful of greedy, hostile people hates her enough to kill? What final, terrible truth are they trying to keep from her? Desperate and alone, Nell cannot even turn for help to the man she has come to love - for he, too, seems more intent on saving the Drakewoods' reputation than her life!