Foxfire Cove — Kate Ostrander

No one who has traveled through the Delmarva Peninsula will ever forget its sprawling length along the shores of three states, the harvest moon, the wild birds, the mist-wreathed swamps and hollows. It is a land of sunwashed meadows and glades by day, eerie nights of spirits and haunting lights, and of old houses where strange things can happen...

Geraldine Talese had wandered from job to job since her graduation from college. She had never quite figured out what she wanted to do with her life, and so, when she received an offer to become a librarian on a great Chesapeake estate, she decided it would be a good place to collect her thoughts for a while. But from the beginning of her employ at Foxfire Cove, a chill of fear and danger hung in the air. Except for Bill Hanson, the handsome farm manager, everyone else treats her with contempt or hostility. Why did they despise her so? And what secret was so terrible that it made somebody try to kill her?