Halleswell Hall - Lisa Fuller

From a storm-tossed sea, a man of God is cast on the shores of Britain, where he founds an early church. A merchant builds a great Elizabethan house, and yet it is a branch of the Meverall family that will live in the house for centuries to come. Through civil war and treachery to piracy and plague, still the family name lives on. Yet on a night when Halley's Comet streaks the sky, an evil pact causes an innocent life to be lost and a curse to be released that will decimate the family. Will love be able to redeem the last of the Meverall's, or will it take an innocent child to show the way? This lively first novel romps through the years in an inventive historical family saga.