Black Heather — Virginia Coffman

A dreadful secret lay in the ancient inn. Would it lead to death, or love?

House Of Vengeance.

The Hag's Head Inn had a reputation for evil that even a modern young woman like pretty Kathleen Bodun couldn't deny. And while she didn't believe in ghosts, Kate had to admit that the abandoned inn, with its history of gruesome murder, was not the ideal place to establish a school for young ladies. But the asking price was certainly low, and besides, Sir Nicholas Everett, the local magistrate, had so infuriated her at their first meeting that she was becoming resolved to purchase the old place just because he disapprove of the idea.

Yet the more she became entangled with the handsome Sir Nicholas, the more Kate began to wonder why he really didn't want her to buy the inn. Could the rumors be right? Was Sir Nicholas the murderer of the woman who had been found slaughtered there twelve years before, the woman who had loved Nicholas but married another man?

Kate was determined to learn the truth, for despite their disagreements, she knew she was falling in love with Nicholas. So she bravely set out to prove the gossips wrong, but instead Kate found herself walking into a deadly trap, marked as the next victim of the vengeful ghost at Hag's Head Inn. . .