Shadows on the Left Bank — Gertrude Schweitzer

Nightmare City

Now that Claire Endicott had arrived in Paris, she desperately wanted to stay. That was the only reason she accepted the job Noel Verlaine offered -- to live in his elegant mansion and watch after his teen-aged niece. For there was something troubling about this worldly man, and something horrifying about a tormented young girl who was either hopelessly vicious and corrupt, or else the victim of a serpentine design of destruction.

Paris was no longer a paradise for Claire -- it was a terrifying prison from which she might not escape alive…