The Eagle at the Gate
Her heart soared on wings of rapture... and terror!

BLINDED BY LOVE

To Aptra Coleman, exquisite actress, the invitation to perform at the magnificent Abbotswood estate seemed heavensent.

And the man of the manor, David Hilyard, desired her, wed her, enthroned her in Abbotswood…only to turn her bliss into trembling terror.

For the beauty of Abbotswood could not mask David's suddenly sinister behavior…the whispered warning of the lusty red-haired blacksmith…the gaslight games her husband played to torment her…and the growing austreness that she was the precious quarry of David's obsession with a bird of prey -- the eagle at the gate!
