The Dark Secrets of Villa Montelano
Knoll, Anne
It was like a scene out of some thrilling romantic tale when the handsome stranger appeared out of the fog to tell London shopgirl Charlotte Stone that the grandmother she'd never met - the legendary opera star Gia Gerardo - had named her beneficiary of her vast estate. But it was on the ship bound for America to claim her legacy that she lost her heart to attorney Forrest Singleton and agreed to become his bride...


Yet from the moment she first glimpsed the castle's start, forbidding facade - gazing up into windows that seemed to stare back like dark, malevolent eyes - Charlotte was gripped by feelings of unease. In the jagged lightning, the turreted towers seemed to pierce the stormy sky like an ominous omen. And her grandmother's strange assortment of friends and relations made it clear she was not welcome at Villa Montelano. Then Charlotte saw the phantom figure suspended from a tree, head the strains of a haunting aria that followed her through the cavernous halls like a ghostly refrain.