Pandora's Box — Betty Hale Hyatt

Lovely Emma Lucas's marriage had begun with a lie --and now it had turned into a nightmare. She had traveled from Regency England under an assumed name to marry a French nobleman she had never seen, Jules, Comte du Chaillard. And only after the ceremony was over did she begin to suspect what kind of a monster her bridegroom was, and what horror haunted his ancient chateau.

Emma was the bride of a man for whom giving pain was the ultimate pleasure, and who exercised absolute power over every human being in his domain. Only Jules' handsome cousin, Piers Masterson, offered Emma any hope of escape from this terrible trap. Only Jules' fear-shadowed little daughter from a former marriage, Pandora, possessed the key to the mystery of his bizarre behavior. And only Emma herself believed she might find a way out of this maze of madness.

Hero: Piers Masterson
Heroine: Emma Lucas