Seacliff House Author:Jane Toombs Esma Drake, fresh from the orphanage, arrives at Seacliff House to care for sickly five-year-old Alisette. Esma soon finds the household uneasy. The child's father, and captain of Sea Dragon, Stephen Nicolai, is years overdue at port, and, to Esma's distress, the child's mother ignores the little girl. Then Stephen returnswith amnesia, recogniz... more »ing no one. When he at first mistakes Esma for his wife, the terror that soon engulfs Seacliff House begins.« less