The Unguarded

• Author: Dorothy Daniels
• Publisher: Lancer
• Year: 1965

MANSION OF MENACE. Bluegrass Hill, with its rambling and rundown 22-room house, was a new and alien environment for Corinna. And it presented her with a double problem: the battle within herself to adapt to it, and the struggle to defend herself against its unseen but very real dangers. Her immediate task was to nurse her hopelessly invalid uncle -- who didn't want to be nursed. Beyond that was the monumental chore of salvaging something of value out of the once prosperous horse farm. There was mystery inside the house and out of it -- including a phantom wild stallion that defied all efforts to capture or identify it. There were many strangers to deal with -- including two men who loved her, either of whom could be a killer. And over all, the intangible fear drew closer...