blood roots

FORLORN IN ITS GRACIOUS DECAY
DEVEREAUX HOUSE WAS THE HOME SHE LONGED FOR...
OR THE HORROR SHE MUST EMBRACE...
All her life, Olivia only wanted to be part of a large, loving family. But her mother had hated her home and fled from it; Olivia's grandmother did not even know she was alive. As Olivia grew into a beautiful young woman, her mother's fits of fury trembled into madness, a brooding despair over all she lost...Devereaux House, the grand plantation manor rising out of the evening mists...the genteel weatlh and gallant ways of day long gone.
Locked away in the dark during her mother's terrible rages, Olivia could only dream of her ancestral home and all its glories - until her mother's death. Then, yearning to find her roots and put the past to rest, Olivia came home at last to Devereaux House. Her grandmother live here, the woman her mother had called evil. Yet here was Olivia's one frail hope: the family, love an acceptance she so fervently desired. But when the crumbling doors of Devereaux House swung open, Olivia walked into a poisoned web...a legacy of lust and desecration reaching down through the ages to claim her...  

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