VICTORIA HOLT Jean Plaidy Mistress of Mellyn Historical
Title: Mistress of Mellyn Author: Victoria Holt Publisher: Fontana 1978 Condition: Softcover with some light wear and creasing, spine has a lean, pages lightly tanned. Synopsis: As the train carried Martha through the wooded hills of Devon, she could not help feeling a deep sense of foreboding. For a Victorian girl alone in the world, being a governess was the prescribed formula, but Martha was a high-spirited, attractive girl, and she hated the very idea of it - particularly when she heard of the strange mysteries that shrouded her now home at Mount Mellyn. Her anxiety grew when she first saw the cold, brooding house set high on the Cornish cliffs, facing the sea. And when she met her arrogant employer, Con TreMellyn and his precocious, resentful young daughter, Alvean, Martha realized why three governesses before her had left the eerie mansion. The neighbors and servants were eager to give hints and half-confidences - of strange accidents, infidelity, and death. It was only her growing love for the troubled Alvean, and an unwilling attraction to Con TreMellyn that quickened her resolve to stay on and try to unravel the mysteries which encompassed their lives - a determination that was to put her own life in danger from a totally unexpected direction.
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