title: Falcon's Island
author: Scott, Antonia
description: Trapped in a dark night of superstition and terror
  
  The Island's Curse
  
  "Governess Wanted," the ad said, and pretty Christy Randolph was glad to escape her unhappy past by taking the job on the remote island off the Maine coast. But no sooner had she arrived than she was plunged into a past more dark and barbaric than any she had known.
  
  There was Matthew Parrish, the gruff, rude, but strangely handsome seaman. There were the sullen townspeople who muttered of spells and witchcraft. And there was the enigmatic Falcon family itself, haunted by madness and violent death.
  
  Soon Christy realized that the dead had placed a terrible curse on the living, and she too was trapped in its fateful grip...