Jo Anne Dodson was thrilled when she came to the old mountainside mansion at River's Bend. It still seemed incredible that she was the missing grand-daughter of an eccentric millionaire, and that his death had made her heiress to his estate. But from the moment that she entered this strange house, fear began. The apparition of a long-dead girl carrying a blanket dripping with blood . . . the revelation of a family curse of madness . . . the suspicious attentions of a man who claimed to be a writer but clearly might be something far more sinister . . . all quickened and swelled the torrent of terror that Jo Anne's arrival had unleashed. Too late Jo Anne discovered that she had been willed a legacy of evil—and now that evil was claiming her as its own . . .