Chapter One
The wind howled aiad the ra~ pound~. A loose
shutter siappezl against the outside of the house
somewhere， bangh~g out an irregular， uneasy rhyt!~l.
Sask.ia shivereA. She switched on yet another lm~ap
in the parlor， but it didn t help. It was already down~
fight spookLv around here， mad the s，6ance hadn t even
begun.
\"I th)~k we may be having a hurricane，\" she said
uneasily， as she peered out the french doors into the
sto~. But all she could see was a gray wa!l of raN，
slashi~lg almost sidewaya as it beat on ~he gtlasso
What made it even more frightening was that she
had never !ived on the coast before， she didn t k~o，，v
what precautions she ought to .be tatting. Saskia
w/shed， not for the first time， that the house were more
She w~n t at all sure the roof wouldn t ~qy fight off，
or the wN1s cave ~， or the newly repaired north t-~wer
tumble to the ground under this kind on onslaught.
Her renovation plans had yielded ple~Pj of bills， a!l
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