Dark Power

"The Châlet was a house easy to get into, but not so easy to leave. . ." Diana Leonard comes to the Châlet at the invitation of her long-lost uncle, but soon finds that her visions of a family reunion are shattered by feelings of dread and suspicion. 


Her Aunt Emma is a stern, domineering woman, a professor of psychology who conducts experiments on two cretin children who live with her. Uncle Peter himself is either a fool or a sadist, and Di can’t figure out which. Their son, her cousin Miles, is a guilt-ridden alcoholic, his confidence long ago destroyed by his manipulating mother. And then there’s her grandfather Rufus, a rich eccentric who comes to stay but who spends every moment in fear for his life from the rest of the family. 


It will take every ounce of Diana’s courage to survive her stay in the Châlet—and an even greater act of will to survive her family.