The Bride of Cairngore Author:Jean Francis Webb Jessica Warren, a young American decorator, comes to Cairngore, a gloomy mansion built a century ago deep in a cleft of mountainous Hawaii, with the assignment of transforming it into a luxury hotel. She was to make it charming, gay - dispel the evil spirits forever. To Jessica, the rumors she'd heard about with the place seemed, on the surface,... more » to be nonsense. Yet how could she completely dismiss the shocking revelations that had taken place during her promotional TV appearance? She could hear the moderator saying meaningfully, "It's no ordinary house. You must know that." But Jessica hadn't known, and she was appalled as the other panel guest - an authority on psychic phenomena - revelled in further surprises: The Veiled Lady of Cairngore is one of the principal phenomena I came here to research... Three separate people on three separate occasions, came back with reliable reports of a phantom pacing the grounds after twilight... All misty with trailing draperies, wandering in the very bloom of youth. And thus Jessica learned of the mansion's clouded past... that its original builder and owner, Caleb Gore, was alleged to have murdered his wife within these walls.. that her ghost had been seen stalking the deserted gardens and corridors... the the Bride of Cairngore was, in spirit, still mistress of that mansion. Old wives' tales, thought Jessica - until she met the modern master of Cairngore - and realized the castle might also have a clouded future. Was the handsome Duncan Gore heir not only to the fortune and estate but also to the family's madness? Would he, too, be driven to murder? And, lacking a bride of his own, would he choose Jessica as the logical victim?« less