Augusta, The First is the opening novel n the greatest series of gothic romances ever conceived. You wont' want to miss the others all exclusively in Popular Library editions. Young and beautiful Augusta Merrihew fled England and the strange evil that seemed to haunt her. In the new world of America she hoped to find the happiness and safety that so long had eluded her. When she met handsome and dashing Joshua Phenwick, it seemed her dreams had come true. She gave her hand in marriage to this man who was as mysterious as he was irresistible and on the lonely New England coast the great manor of Phenwick House was erected as a towering monument to their love. Little did Augusta know that she was entering a hellish nightmare. For the curse of the past has followed Augusta across the seas, in the form of a man who held her helpless by his iron will...