It was a ghastly horror of a house party. Miss Penelope Childe and all the others were awaiting the end of the wicked earl's rotten life.

Murder is done. The centuries-old curse has struck again. Penelope alone heard the supernatural scream and sees the ghosts that no one else can.

Penelope is a reluctant bride-to-be, contracted to wed a man she's never met before. With a murderer in the haunted house, dare she trust her betrothed, Lord Taredell? Is the rogue lord really her protector? Could he be a killer?