📙 When beautiful young Judith Maynard left The Birches, it was to marry a fabulously wealthy older man who swore to make her every dream come true. But when she returned to the old family mansion, her lovely face was hollow-cheeked, her eyes nervous with terror, her marriage mysteriously shattered, her dream turned into a nightmare. Yet she would reveal to no one what strange curse had blighted her life - and now had turned this, her last refuge, into a deadly trap…