Angelica Acuff

gave her an odd sensation, almost as if she were in the presence of a human being when he was with her. But his master ...? Frank had told her Vince Rivers was coming, nothing more. The moment she'd seen the white Continental swerve into the drive and the too- handsome, sleek-looking, well-dressed young man alight with an athletic flourish of movement, something unpleasant had happened in her sex- starved belly. There hadn't been time to analyze it then and in the three days he had been with them, Lisa's belligerent attitude had kept Shirley so on edge that she could concern herself with nothing else. The vivacious young teenager despised her stepmother -- there was no denying that, anymore than she could question the fact that Frank Douglas' resentful daughter was using every means she could devise