Hill Diane Hill 
Bloodstone 

The Church acquires an infamous estate in the countryside called Bloodstone Manor at a phenomenal price. Over its one hundred year history, it had been the setting for insanity, murders, disappearances, and tragedy. The 13 nuns and 25 orphans move in, including Claire Winslow, an eighteen-year-old novice with a peculiar gift. Enter Jesus de Natas seeking a job as a groundskeeper. But who is he? The nuns saw him as a polite, young Latino man from the west coast. The owner of a neighboring estate saw him as an expert gardener. To Mother Superior, whose mental state was rapidly deteriorating, he might just be the devil himself. But to Claire, in love for the first time, he was the man of her dreams, her soul mate. The fiery attraction between Claire and Jesus seems to have awakened something that sets cataclysmic events in motion. Some places are doomed to repeat their tortured histories over and over again. Love, murder, insanity – which one will prevail at Bloodstone Manor?