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Mansion in Miniature — Elizabeth St. Clair
TERROR IN MINIATURE.
The dollhouse was a Georgian mansion in miniature, breathtakingly realistic, as lovely and fragile as Crystal Fairchild herself. And Crystal's pretty little sister Karen was delighted at the chance to visit isolated Fair Island and help put the finishing touches on this doll-sized wonder. But when Karen arrived at her sister's home, Crystal greeted her not with friendship but with fear, muttering that her dead husband's family was holding her prisoner and they'd never let her escape. Poor mad Crystal, seeing villains everywhere but in her little dollhouse world. Karen could see that the Fairchilds were only trying to help Crystal. Certainly handsome Paul Fairchild, she had swiftly captured Karen's heart, would protect Crystal from any harm.
But Karen was wrong, and for once Crystal perceived the truth and recognized the horror which was reaching out to engulf them both- a horror that could find them anywhere, that could pursue them even into Crystal's dollhouse sanctuary, claiming its two helpless victims and leaving their precious creation tainted by an overpowering legacy of fear.
The dollhouse was a Georgian mansion in miniature, breathtakingly realistic, as lovely and fragile as Crystal Fairchild herself. And Crystal's pretty little sister Karen was delighted at the chance to visit isolated Fair Island and help put the finishing touches on this doll-sized wonder. But when Karen arrived at her sister's home, Crystal greeted her not with friendship but with fear, muttering that her dead husband's family was holding her prisoner and they'd never let her escape. Poor mad Crystal, seeing villains everywhere but in her little dollhouse world. Karen could see that the Fairchilds were only trying to help Crystal. Certainly handsome Paul Fairchild, she had swiftly captured Karen's heart, would protect Crystal from any harm.
But Karen was wrong, and for once Crystal perceived the truth and recognized the horror which was reaching out to engulf them both- a horror that could find them anywhere, that could pursue them even into Crystal's dollhouse sanctuary, claiming its two helpless victims and leaving their precious creation tainted by an overpowering legacy of fear.