The Waiting Darkness Author:Willo Davis Roberts HEIRESS IN DANGER! — At twenty, Valerie Andreason lived the life of a stranger in the home of her her, Hazel Patrick. The girl was six months away from coming into her father's fortune, and the promise of freedom was almost more than she could bear. She was in the Patrick home, but never a part of it, althoughfor five years Hazel Patrick had been... more » doing her bestto develop Valerie into a compliasant and willing human property. And now the older woman could see Valerie slipping through her fingers, she was intensifying her efforts...but to what end? Was it to gain control of the girl's coming inheritance?
Valerie did not know, and did not care...or so she convinced herself. But as she began to make her first tentativethrusts freedom, strange things began to happen...terrifying things. And soon it was apparent that someone wanted to see her dead...were they after her fortune? Or seeking revenge against her family's past-a past Valerie had never known?« less