The Stewarts of Stormhaven ;

Ishbel Stewart assured herself that she knew all about the past of the dashing and successful businessman, Henry Davis, who had claimed her as his bride. But with each passing day the man she thought she knew grew more like a stranger to her as she sought to unravel the mysteries of the furtive past which haunted this brooding man and threatened not only her marriage but her own life as well. Had this stranger, her husband, driven his first wife to a violent plunge to her death? Were the voices that Ishbel heard in the dead of night behind the locked doors of her husband’s study simply underworld characters with who he shared an evil vice, or the sounds of phantoms of the past? And was she, Ishbel, fated to become yet another victim in this house of fear where nameless evil lurked in the shadows and pursued her to the edge of the grave…?

Ann Stewart had been swept off her feet and plunged into marriage with young Dr. Ian Stewart. Despite the warnings of others about Ian's mysterious ways and violent temper, she was blinded to everything but his virile good looks, his unyielding strength of purpose, his dazzling sharpness of intellect. Only when Anne moved into the great stone mansion high above the city of Edinburgh did she begin to glimpse the dark side of this man who claimed her as his own. What strange rites did he perform in the cellars that Ann was forbidden to enter? What diabolical hold did Ian's satanic mentor, the "mad" Dr. Marsh, have upon him? Was she, Ann, fated to become another hideously disfigured body sacrificed on the altar of unholy science? With every passing day of dread and night of terror, Ann's heavenly dream of love turned into a nightmare straight out of hell....

The hideously brutal face of the most vicious rogue in Scotland haunted the nightmares of lovely young Flora Murray laong after the man's huge body swung from the gallows. For it was she who had condemned this monstrous figure to death, and she who had heard his vow to return from beyond the grave and claim her. Flora thought she found sanctuary in the loving arms of aristocratic Ian Stewart, who brought her as his bride to the ancient family manor of Stormhaven. But all too soon the terrified young woman found that this seeming fortress against fear was in reality a prison of peril, with her own beloved husband as her implacable captor, and with an all-hungering horror rising straight from hell....