Blackthorn — Arlene J. Fitzgerald

The Castle And The Curse

Death and danger drew lovely Nodlaig McConnell to Blackthorn Castle in Ireland…the death of her step-mother in her San Francisco mansion…and the danger shadowing Nodlaig ever since a handsome Irish stranger spied the strange crescent scar of Nodlaig's young flesh.

In this ancient castle lay the key to the closing circle of mystery and menace. Here where the spectre of a fiend in human form haunted the night, and the spirit of a tormented beauty fled eternally from doom, Nodlaig searched for a way out of her nightmare -- only to find herself hopelessly in love with a man who made countless women his victims, and herself heiress to a horror that would not die but ravenously killed…