The Spider in the Cup
 Could love free her from this legacy of fear?

Her love was shadowed by terror.

By accepting the post of companion to wealthy Madame de Montpaon, lovely Lavinia Pierrepont hoped to escape from a life she could no longer stand.

But Lavinia never dreamed of what awaited her at Chateau Boismarin. For she had not planned on falling in love with Madame de Montpaon's handsome young nephew, Louis de St. Paulle.

Nor could she have known of the terrible family secret which bound aunt and nephew together in this mansion of doom. Fear and doubt shrouded the chateau, and Lavinia felt herself becoming enmeshed in an ever tightening web of danger from which only Louis could save her. But how could she trust herself to a man who seemed to destroy everything he touched . . . ?