Back cover: An eerie old house named for the harsh voiced birds bound up with its past ... The aunts, three old ladies just this side of insanity ... The servant girl, treated with more derence than the new wife of the master ... This was what Rodney brought his bride home to. With growing fear Lois realized that she knew little of Rodney's past -- who was Willow, she wondered, the family maid -- beautiful, demanding, familiar, no more a maid than Lois herself?
Rodney's three Aunts were kind, but Lois sensed their hostility, their resentment -- their menace? -- for someone at Crow Hollow was determined to get rid of her, dead or alive. And Rodney, her own husband, could not -- or would not? -- believe that his wife was in danger ...
Rodney's three Aunts were kind, but Lois sensed their hostility, their resentment -- their menace? -- for someone at Crow Hollow was determined to get rid of her, dead or alive. And Rodney, her own husband, could not -- or would not? -- believe that his wife was in danger ...
