title: Blackmaddie
author: Innes, Jean
description: "Blackmaddie puts a curse on all those who try to escape her clutches"
  
  Summoned to Scotland by her ailing grandfather, Charlotte Brodie had anticipated a warm reception at Blackmaddie castle. Instead she was met with the hostility and resentment of a strange and troubled family. Only her handsome and arrogant cousin was willing to befriend her, although his passionate nature foretold a friendship of a much different nature.
  
  Settling into her new home, Charlotte at first dismissed her drugged drink and shredded dress as petty acts of maliciousness. But she felt her terror quickly mount when she found the books on witchcraft and heard the midnight chanting. Long ago the first lady of the castle had laid a curse on anyone who dared to leave Blackmaddie, and it was that curse that frightened Charlotte now. She had come to this towering old castle to claim her inheritance, but she feared that something more sinister may have found her. For there was one who would do anything to keep Blackmaddie and protect her...even if it meant killing again.