Shadow Over Wyndham Hall — Juanita Tyree Osborne

Had Loel Courtney waited six years to marry Duane Wyndham only to lose him through the treachery of a member of his own household? When Loel's father died after a long illness, she was able at last to join raven-haired Duane at Wyndham Hall, the country-old plantation home overlooking a mist-veiled river, spring-green woods, and freshly ploughed fields. But behind the profusion of azalea and dogwood lurked a dark, unfathomable presence, someone bent on harming--possibly murdering--Duane, sole owner of the entire Wyndham estate.

So said Duane, and according to him, the trouble had started three years ago when his mother, the aristocratically beautiful Frederica, returned to Wyndham Hall with a new husband, Colin Shields, and Colin's mischievous, temperamental daughter, Gabriella, Duane's parents had been divorced many years before, and Frederica had left the plantation, giving over her young son to the care of his aunt, Genevieve Wyndham. Duane's father was now dead, but Aunt Genevieve still lived at Wyndham Hall with her son, Newt, Duane's first cousin. Newt had been left no share of the estate, nor had Don Rushmore, an orphan from a poor farm family whom Duane's father had taken in and raised.

Shortly after her arrival, Loel too became a target for danger. And then two members of the household disappeared. The grim search began, its outcome unpredictable, and quite possibly tragic. Only one thing was certain; Before Loel and Duane could marry, they had to solve the mystery shadowing their future.