Menace at the Gate — Juanita Tyree Osborne

Demetria Bayne's romances seemed doomed to a tragic end. First Stephen Ellison had drowned, and the Britt Ainsley had mysteriously disappeared. Furthermore, there was an eerie, unsettling atmosphere at Stormfield, the old Bayne plantation.

Now Craig Pembroke--dark, forbidding, but strangely appealing--had rented the gatehouse at Stormfield. Demetria couldn't understand why this young man from a more sophisticated world had come to the plantation, miles from anywhere. Also, she couldn't help noticing that he seemed much too inquisitive about her family. And above all, she couldn't help wondering if somehow his presence here marked the beginning of a still greater tragedy for her.