Cottage at Barron Ridge — Juanita Tyree Osborne

When Feather Halstead was seventeen and living in the orphanage--the only home she had ever known--Garnett Barron seemed like a heavenly angel when she chose Feather to accompany her on her world-wide travels as a companion-secretary. Garnett, who insisted that Feather call her aunt even though there was only slightly more than a ten-year age difference between them, had been blind since childhood, but her intense desire to escape from her domineering younger brother, Devaney, and to lead an independent life away from Barron Ridge transcended her disability, and she found in Feather a perfect helpmate.

After ten years of exotic visits to far-flung places Garnett died suddenly, and added to Feather's shock and grief was the stupefying discovery that Garnett had left her the lakeside cottage and woodland property adjoining Barron Ridge. For the first time in her life Feather would have a home of her own, even if it meant having to contend with the Barron family, and especially Devaney Barron.

But the cottage at Barron Ridge was not the home she had anticipated. Set in an isolated, pine-laden area, with the lake murmuring restlessly night and day, it seemed foreboding and full of long-hidden secrets--secrets that, it unfolded, could very well threaten Feather's new chance for happiness.