Orphaned and penniless, Tisha Hawkins had gratefully accepted the post as governess to Lady Trevelyan's small son, Wilton. But her contentment was shattered when she witnessed the fatal stabbing of her mistress by a black-garbed intruder...and promised the dying woman she would protect her child. So when her ladyship's estranged husband, Lord Andrew Redruth, claimed the boy and took him to remote Cornwall, Tisha was honor-bound to go with them. But at gloomy Trelochen Towers, high on the cliffs above the roiling sea, somone wanted to harm Lord Andrew's small son--someone who would stop at nothing. Confused and terrified by the servants' whispered warnings, tormented by the love and suspicion that warred within her heart, Tisha desperately tried to protect young Wilton from his nightmares and sleepwalking and from the danger that seemed to lurk in every corner of the dark castle. Not even in Lord Andrew Redruth's arms could Tisha find solace, for a gathering storm of evil threatened Trelochen Towers and someone was bound to fall prey to its fury.
Orphaned and penniless, Tisha Hawkins had gratefully accepted the post as governess to Lady Trevelyan's small son, Wilton. But her contentment was shattered when she witnessed the fatal stabbing of her mistress by a black-garbed intruder...and promised the dying woman she would protect her child. So when her ladyship's estranged husband, Lord Andrew Redruth, claimed the boy and took him to remote Cornwall, Tisha was honor-bound to go with them. But at gloomy Trelochen Towers, high on the cliffs above the roiling sea, somone wanted to harm Lord Andrew's small son--someone who would stop at nothing. Confused and terrified by the servants' whispered warnings, tormented by the love and suspicion that warred within her heart, Tisha desperately tried to protect young Wilton from his nightmares and sleepwalking and from the danger that seemed to lurk in every corner of the dark castle. Not even in Lord Andrew Redruth's arms could Tisha find solace, for a gathering storm of evil threatened Trelochen Towers and someone was bound to fall prey to its fury.