There None Embrace

257 pp. "It was not a tangible hate that met and surrounded Elise when she arrived in St. Claire just one day after marrying Aubrey Creighton--nothing should could fight, nothing she could see, but rather insidious, perverted, and soul destroying. Aubrey's wife and his mother--the two Mrs. Creightons--met on hot, brassy morning, and there sprang into being, in that small apathetic town, a battle for a man's sanity that was to be fought in the darkness, in the looming shadows of a decaying house set high on a hill. It was a house that had one before shielded a murder, maybe two; a hallow shell that reverberated with the passions of many loves. And what of the newer, smaller house on the plateau beneath, its concrete steps rising to the mansion like a pleated silver cord? an umbilical cord that had never been severed? As this gripping story about love, sex, hate, and insanity swirls to its spine-chilling climax, you'll be asking yourself, where does love end and hate begin?"--jacket