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The Curse of Carranca

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Persis Bradbury is 6 foot tall and blue-eyed who believes she is engaged until her boyfriend dumps her for a blonde model and since she is so tall it's hard to find a guy of the appropriate height and she ends up asking her boss to send her to Madrid to work on a project for the company. She meets a girl on the plane (Doris) and becomes friends and meets Dom Sebastian (the Madrid Partner) and ends up marrying him. There is a mystery involving some lost/stolen artifacts, the war, her Uncle Ted who was a secret resistance fighter, a curse and a prophecy about a "blue-eyed witch from across the waters" who will lift the curse. This is one of my favorite Elsie Lee books and once again she has a very strong female protagonist.

Great suspense and a too-smart-for-her-own-good heroine. This has one of Elsie Lee's great cat characters in it too.
From the back cover: Few men make passes at six-foot lasses -- especially one whose ancestor was a Salem witch! So lofty, lovely, blue-eyed Persis Bradbury, in Portugal to recover from being jilted in America, couldn't believe she was actually being courted by Lisbon's most eligible widower: handsome, rich, charming, six-foot-four Dom Sebastaio! Her wounded heart responded with unquestioning passion, but her healthy mind kept asking a disturbing question: why had Seb married her? Surely it couldn't be because of that silly superstition about a family curse that could only be broken by a blue-eyed witch from across the sea? Then Seb brought Persis to Carranca, his ancestral estate, introduced her to his unloving family -- and plunged her into a seething maelstrom of greed, malice and intrigue destined to drag her down to her death!