By the light of a gilded moon, a mysterious black rainbow framed the huddled towers of Grayhaven Manor, a vision of ominous beauty that seemed to warn Megan O'Neill of a darkness within. As the estate's new governess, her apprehensions were banished by the welcome of the Mandeville family. But Megan's growing obsession for her handsome employer blinds her to the terrifying truth of Grayhaven.

She stood fiercely and aggressively on the rocky mound, the black veil of her bonnet billowing out behind her, tendrils of her vivid hair whipping about her taut and angry face. Lucy di Castelloni was watching for the first locomotive on the newly constructed railway line to come into sight, wanting to protest by her presence there against the speedy transport that had become more important than people's homes and livelihoods. In a landscape backed...