Silence Is Golden — Elsie Lee

When nineteen-year-old Silence Eddington came to be companion to the beautiful young future heiress of Hazelhurst Grange, she entered a dazzling, disturbing new world. The orphanage where Silence had grown up had left her unprepared for the dreamlike luxury of this great manor, and for its nightmare danger.

What spell did this place cast over all who dwelled here?... the girl who was so mysteriously ailing, strangely possessed ... the servants whose humble manners were masks for hate... the master himself, scarred by a secret past, ruled by fearful passions, with the power to make Silence tremble with his gaze and melt at his touch.

Silence was about to learn for the first time what love was--and what evil it could do....