Hands of Terror — Jeanne Crecy

Erica Hastings had come to Lady Gift in the heart of the English countryside to be the companion/tutor of nine-year-old Kimberly Matthews, whose widowed father was a well-known playwright. Erica's first glimpse of the ancestral home chilled her to the bone, for on the iron grillwork of the ancient gate was a strange motif of sculpted hands that seemed to hold a terrible sadness. The story of those hands was even more foreboding - tangled in a web of hatred and jealousy that drew Erica ever deeper into terror and love...