The fate of her sister was all Victoria could think about as she journeyed to Penporth Island. Her sister had gone there to marry a man she had never seen, a man whose reputation was mean and frightening. And when her letters stopped, Victoria was certain that something dreadful had happened -- that she'd never see her beloved sibling again. Alone, terrified, but determined to discover the truth, Victoria had no inkling of the danger lurking in her future...

A destiny of her own was awaiting Victoria at Lord Julian Hawley's manor. The gray Cornish building loomed menacingly over the water. The screeching gulls, the choppy sea -- it seemed as though even nature was warning her to leave. But nothing prepared her for Julian's dark brooding eyes that watched every move she made, that seemed to bore into her soul. And when she heard his footsteps echoing in the hallways and saw his ghost-like silhouette on her bedroom wall, she knew that her sister's fate would soon be her own -- that she would never escape from THE SHRIEKING SHADOWS OF PENPORTH ISLAND (