The Third Wife — Jeanne Hines

A Mexican plantation becomes a hacienda of horror in "The third wife".

Beautiful young Barbara Sarget had come to Texas, to that teeming state of cattle, but she finds the terror under the sun.

Terror under the sun.

Beautiful young Barbara Sarget had come to Texas, to that teeming state of cattle and cowboys, to stay with her friend Maribee Hale, and to meet Maribee's brother. But no such placid romantic encounter was to take place. Already she was pursued by Tallman Towers, the heir to a western empire and the man Maribee loved. But Barbara had lost her heart and soul to Don Carlos Castellanos, a man as mysterious as he was alluring. The mixture of the heat and the sight of Don Carlos' palatial Mexican mansion made Barbara's head swim. The mixture of his murderous past and his terrifying present made her run for her life.