Note: Possibly a genre novel, based on the publisher's description. Verifier should check, and update the author's bibliographic comments as appropriate.

Synopsis: Publisher: If a house can hate... Sevier Hall hated young Lydia Clark. Under the strange will of Matthew Sevier, she owned all of it -- the mansion and its 4000 acres of plantation in the old South. But she had to live there, among the people who resented her ... who would profit by her death ... whose smiles and friendly gestures couldn't be trusted. No one except a Sevier had ever owned the house. Why had the old man left it to Lydia, whom he never saw? Was his motive kind -- or bitterly cunning? Lydia had to find out -- before some hidden enemy or the malevolent mansion itself cut off the bright promise of life and love!