Stranger at the Gate — Lynn Williams

Young and lovely Lorie Brown tried to tell herself that she wasn't superstitious. Her job as a fledgling real estate agent was to sell the old Hollingsworth mansion, not to believe rumors about its evil past and the curse that lay upon it.

But from the moment that the handsome and mysterious stranger John Franklin appeared at the door of Hollingsworth House, Lorie felt fear rising like an inexorable tide within her. She could not help falling under the romantic spell of this man, despite the chain of violence and death his arrival seemed to set off. And now Lorie knew that somewhere concealed in the eerie interior of the mansion lay a missing necklace, a hidden will, and a perilous secret that were her only possible steppingstones to safety as she plunged ever deeper into a mist of menace where love could lie and kisses lead her to betrayal.

Hero: John Franklin
Heroine: Lorie Brown