The Beckoning Door — Mabel Seeley

THE HOUSE ON THE HILL

A toy merry-go-round...an unused railraod ticket...anonymous notes.

It didn't make sense. But then, nothing did ever since Sylvia had come back to live in the house on the hill. Sylvia, who was always too rich and too beautiful to be believable.

Something had happened to Sylvia. This was not the assured, bold young girl who had left the town a few years before. Something had happened to make her deathly afraid. Haunted.

What was the danger she was running from? And what had she tried to tell her cousin, Cathy, before it was too late - much too late!


RETURN AS A STRANGER

Nothing made sense ever since Sylvia had come back to the house on the hill.

There was the riddle of the toy merry-go-round, and the question of the unused railroad ticket, and of course the anonymous notes.

But then Sylvia always had been too rich and too beautiful to be believable.

Something had happened to change Sylvia, however. This frightened creature was not the same boldly assured young woman who had left the small town years ago. Something had happened to make her deathly afraid -- Something strange and terrible…