Chapter One

Dark Desire

The house had been waiting for her. She knew it the moment the door opened of its own accord and the candles, every one of them, leaned gently toward her as she passed.

Lena Marsh had inherited a great many things in her thirty years — none of them, until this week, a candlelit estate at the end of a road that did not appear on any map she had been able to find.

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