The Diamonds of Alcazar

Dark Paradise. El Paraiso was the name of the vast old Spanish ranch in Southern California where beautiful young Caroline Westcott came to work. And indeed at first that great estate did seem an enchanted paradise to the American girl. In the magic of a moonlit night, Caroline surrendered to the embraces of handsome, powerful Marc Ferreres, who ruled all around him with an iron hand, and who took Caroline as his bride as easily as he tamed the wildest mount. Only then did Caroline begin to learn that behind the gracious facade of El Paraiso bubbled a hellfire cauldron of guilty secrets---and that a strange curse born centuries ago had marked her as victim..