Devil May Care

Ellie is young, rich, engaged and in love. These are the carefree days before marriage and new responsibility, and anything goes -- including house-sitting at eccentric Aunt Kate's palatial estate in Burton, Virginia. Ellie feels right at home here with the nearly invisible housekeepers and the plethora of pets, but she soon realizes that there are disturbing secrets about the local aristocracy buried in a dusty old book she has carried into the mansion. And her sudden interest in the past is attracting a slew of unwelcome guests -- some of them living and some, perhaps not. And the terrible vegeance that Ellie and her friends seem to have aroused -- now aimed at them -- surely cannot be... satanic. Young, happy and in love - Ellie and Harry house-sit Aunt Kate's Virginia mansion. However Ellie soon finds herself living with strangers from the distant past. They said her aunt was a witch and that she was marked by an ancestral curse. There was a danger in the house. Danger that could kill Henry Danvers Willoughby was an extremely fortunate young man. Originally published in New York by Avon Books, 1977.