title: Kilmeny in the Dark Woods
author: Stevenson, Florence
description: "I, KILMENY, YOUNGEST DAUGHTER OF SIR RICHARD UNWIN, WAS A CHANGELING...
  
  That is what the villagers around my home believed, though my childhood was passed during the middle years of Queen Victoria's reign, when most educated people scoffed at ghosts, demons, fairies and the like."
  
  Kilmeny was never allowed to forget the strange circumstances of her birth.  Certainly not by her beautiful, scornful sister, Alma, nor by Maggie, the housekeeper who ruled the eerie and ancient Unwin mansion.
  
  Only Gavin, the enchanted boy, made Kilmeny's lonely life bearable.  Gavin - who led her to a lovely red-haired witch whose shadowy eyes foresaw destruction for those probing too deeply the secret of the misty caverns beneath the hill.
  
  It was Charles Cameron, the man Kilmeny loved, who was destined to fulfill the witch's fearful vision.  Defying the warning, he drew Kilmeny with him across the threshold of terror and brought her face to face with the startling revelation of her heritage.