The Shivering Sands Author:Victoria Holt "I could imagine that the gargoyles behind my back were laughing at me. I felt as though something was telling me that I should not stay here, that if I did I should be hurt in some mysterious way. And with this feeling came the certainty that the riddle of Roma's disappearance was hidden somewhere in this house." — The more Caroline Verlaine cam... more »e to know of Lovat Stacy, the stronger these dark premonitions became. She learned of its twin tragedies, and of the ghost that , some said, still haunted the great house. She met the three young girls who were to be her students-each different, each naturally curious, each with her own secret to hide. She met Sibyl Stacy, the mad spinster who always seemed to know more than she revealed. And she met Napier, the heir to Lovat Stacy who proved strangely attractive despite or perhaps because of his dark past. Then came a second mysterious disappearance, and , when Caroline found herself trapped in Roma's former cottage, she realized that she, too, was destined to "disappear"...« less