House on the rocks Author:theresa charles David had always been the ideal father to Adele and the house on the rocks the ideal home. Then one day david died accidentally while swimming under the water. And the old family mansion turned into a prison of fear for his endangered daughter. For Adele was sure someone had forcibly prevented her from saving her father--the same person who now ... more »was determinded to deprive her of her sanity and her life. Was it Deidre, the nerveless beauty her father had married just before he died? Was it Gaston, the man Adele had fallen in love with despite her father's objections to him as a fortune hunter?« less
I like a book that surprises me. A third of the way through, I thought I knew how the story was going to play out. I was partially right, but partially wrong, too. I'm glad the author didn't take the story to the obvious, easy solution.