Joanne, the Unpredictable
Joanne was the most stunningly beautiful and dangerously wilful of all the Phenwick women. Even before she reached the age of twenty, she knew how to be all things to all men in order to turn them into puppets of her desire. And from the moment she arrived at Merrihew Manor, the ancestral Phenwick family estate in England, she began to cast her spell over everyone from her elegant, aristocratic cousin, to the handsome, virile master of the neighboring property, to the worldly, irresistibly charming man of the theater who was visiting from London.

Life at Merrihew Manor was a whirling, intoxicating masked ball of romance for Joanne - until she realized the occult horror that ruled this ancient place, and felt the tightening embrace of a satanic force that neither her beauty nor her guile could disarm or deceive...