title: The Dark Guardian
author: Blake, Vanessa
description: A Deadly Apparition
  
  Lovely heiress Kate Marlowe never hesiated to help a friend in need, and she was quick to take up the cause of a young woman who had been married, got with child, and then abandoned by the future Lord Ledstonborough. With the infant in her arms, Kate went ot Ledstonborough estate to confront the father and force him to recognize his heir.
  
  But he father was not there. Instead, the dark ancestral house of Ledstonborough was filled with malevolent, grasping people, each intent on securing the lordly title for himself. Kate began to fear for the child's life--especially with the appearance of the "Veiled Lady," a spectral figure who walked the halls only when an heir to the title was soon to die!