Used Book – The Scandalous Heiress, Brenda Novak, Julie Vannel

Every time Mike Hill drove past White Road - the beautiful home he should have inherited - anger gripped his heart. Deserted, the mansion had been slowly falling into disrepair since the death of Red - Red, that adventuress who had seduced old Morris Hill to seize all his possessions. What was to be done? The property now belonged to Lucy Caldwell, Red's daughter, who had left town as an ungrateful teenager, rejected by everyone... That evening, as on many other evenings, Mike slowed down in front of White Road, and his gaze was drawn to an unusual detail: a pale light, indicating the presence of an intruder. A few seconds later, he pushed open the heavy door of the mansion... before being blinded by a flashlight. A woman's voice rose, then a face was revealed. A superb and vulnerable face that Mike didn't recognize at first - before realizing, aghast, that the seductive creature who had just materialized before him was none other than Lucy Caldwell. Red's daughter, the heiress of scandal, was back...