Charlotte Morgan is both the wealthiest and most beautiful woman in all of Greenwood, Ontario, a mid-sized town on the Niagara Peninsula. Her impressive, expansive home, Hilltop House – known locally as "Morgan's Castle" – was made possible through the family’s highly profitable vineyards. Charlotte herself was not born a Morgan. She married into a family that was soon beset by tragedy, the most recent being the sudden death of her daughter-in-law. Charlotte has little to do with the business – she is very much a woman of leisure – so why has she hired wholly unqualified sixteen-year-old Laura Dean as her secretary? And why is Charlotte so intent on having the girl live with her and her recently widowed son at Morgan’s Castle? First published in 1964 by Abelard-Schumann, at which the author served as fiction editor. Morgan’s Castle combines family secrets and black humour of the darkest kind. This Ricochet Books edition marks the first new edition in nearly fifty years.
