Shadow of a Man Author:Dorothy Daniels Rachel returned home with a heavy heart. Once Cypress Hall had been the grandest of plantations, her parents happy and wealthy and very much alive. Now a gruesome tragedy had taken her parents' lives, and Rachel was the new mistress of the large plantation. — Rachel expected great sorrow, but she did not expect the strange events that marked he... more »r homecoming--her own near-death on the riverboat; her sudden love for the gallant stranger who saved her life; and then-the unspeakable chilling moment when she began to suspect that something worse than evil was in the air, that the beloved father she mourned was, indeed, still alive!