Ardith Stewart had come to Wyndmoor Manor seeking a cure from the sinister ailment racking her body. Instead, she found a curse ravenous for her soul. From the moment she recognized this forbidding edifice as the grim mansion seen in her nightmares . . . and the moment she saw the portrait of a woman slain as a witch and realized that face was her very own . . . Ardith knew that to have come here was folly, to stay here was damnation, and to escape was impossible.
Marilyn Ross is one popular pseudonym for the prolific author W. E. D. Ross. Possibly best known for Gothic novels including The Stewarts of Stormhaven and novelizations of the TV series Dark Shadows, Ross also wrote romance, historicals, nurse and horror novels. Many of the books are set in New England, particularly coastal Maine.