The mark of Merlin Author:Anne McCaffrey "Carla Murdock's nervousness about going to live with her guardian in his lonely New England home seems to be justified when she meets him for the first time: Major Regan Laird is a strange and bitter man. Once handsome, half of his face is now disfigured by a recent war wound. And strange occurrences add to Carla's uneasiness, forcing her to... more » believe that her officer father was not killed in battle, but murdered...and that her own life is now in danger."« less