Great Gorme

Bookjacket: "Despite some strange and frightening experiences during her school days, Ceil Ellison, a young American, had a college girl's skepticism about the psychic and the occult. But a trip to the green Caribbean island of Connaught to become tutor and companion to young Christian de Ribardi began her own unsought education in unseen, and increasingly threatening ways.

"Friendly and not so friendly islanders feigned ignorance of her remote destinatin: the Great House of Gorme. Even her arrival at the height of a mountain storm was met with mystery as the immense wooden door was inexplicably shut in her face. But as she came to discover, one by one, the secrets of the giant mansion, Ceil discovered that the ultimate mystery lay in the enigmatic person of its owner, Rene de Ribardi -- Master of Gorme."