title: Dark Odyssey
author: Stevenson, Florence
description: Ruins of romance  --  Ruins of menace  --  Casa Slade was a beautiful hacienda. And lovely orphaned Ada Brett was sure she could be happy there with her cousin's family. But from the first, something overshadowed Ada's joy. Was it the frequent quarrels between Henry and his fiery-tempered wife? Or the presence of Don Felipe, that handsome, infuriating man who had earned Henry's enmity but captured Ada's heart? Or was it the ruins in the pine grove, the legendary House of Tears where Don Felipe first declared his love? Drawn again and again to this forbidden place, Ada could feel an evil stalking her within its ruined walls--an evil that at any moment could become death's trap....