AustLit

'One moment she was Bernadette Tyson, a beautiful eighteen-year-old orphan raised by the nuns of St. Brigid's Convent. The next moment handsome young lawyer Robert Douglas was telling her she might be Bernadette MacDonald, the granddaughter of a wealthy Canadian mine owner.

'Before long, Bernadette found herself at her grandfather's home meeting her new family. But evil fortune seemed to pursue Bernadette at the isolated mansion. First there was the open hostility with which her newfound cousins greeted her.

'Then there was the eerie night visitor, beckoning Bernadette to some unknown destiny. And when a bizarre series of "accidents" nearly claimed her life, Bernadette realized that her new happiness could end in a tragedy from which neither Robert nor her grandfather might be able to protect her... '

Source: Front cover blurb.