I descended the staircase, rushed past the grandfather clock standing sentry in the foyer, fled down the hall, and into the library. With the sound of my heart thudding in my ears, I told myself that if anyone asked, I was merely returning my worthy book, with the intention of finding another. I closed the door softly behind me and crept into the room, my feet noiseless upon the carpet. Suddenly, my scalp prickled.
I was being watched. . . .
San Francisco, 1904. Two beautifully exotic sisters, Eugenia and Inda, discover that they are doomed to live as wards in a cold, Nob Hill mansion filled with prejudice, greed and . . . something else. Stumbling upon a deceased aunt’s secret diary clues the girls into the family’s recent history and hateful Aunt Mabel. To survive, they’d have to outsmart and out-muscle Aunt Mabel at her own game of betrayal and worse!
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