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"Dark-eyed Sara Jerome is bright, passionate and indomitable, but her nights have been tormented since childhood by dreams of a candlelit figure glimpsed in a mirror and a sensation of evil so strong she can barely fight herself awake. When she decides to follow her beloved Ritchie Temple to San Francisco, her mother is violently opposed but will not explain why. Sara, however, is determined not to lose him and hopes to find her father's family and...
2) Spindrift
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On coming home from being hospitalized for a nervous breakdown after her beloved father's alleged suicide, Christy Moreland finds her marriage deteriorating, with her husband Joel and small son under the influence of her ruthless, domineering mother-in-law, Theo. When Theo reopens Spindrift, the mansion that was the scene of the suicide, Christy becomes the victim of incidents designed to drive her from Spindrift or into insanity.
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Three spellbinding romantic thrillers from the New York Times–bestselling and Edgar Award–winning “master of suspense” (Mary Higgins Clark).
Now in one volume: Three of the most haunting novels by the “queen of the American gothics” (The New York Times).
Hunter’s Green: When Eve North returns to Athmore, it’s to win back the love of her...
Now in one volume: Three of the most haunting novels by the “queen of the American gothics” (The New York Times).
Hunter’s Green: When Eve North returns to Athmore, it’s to win back the love of her...
4) Columbella
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A governess becomes entangled with a dysfunctional and dangerous family in this novel. Finally liberated from her cruel and domineering mother, twenty-eight-year-old schoolteacher Jessica Abbott has accepted a position as governess in Hampden House, a crumbling plantation on the cliffs of St. Croix. Her charge is Leila Drew, the oppressed teenage daughter of a pathologically punishing mother. But the vulnerable girl is not Catherine Drew's only victim....
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The Turquoise Mask: Manhattan illustrator Amanda Austin is summoned to her grandfather's Santa Fe hacienda to get to know distant relatives of her late mother, who died years ago under mysterious circumstances. But once there, everyone greets her like an unwelcome guest. After a little investigating, she begins to fear the real reason she was invited…
The Trembling Hills: In 1906, Sara Bishop is off to San Francisco to win back her childhood sweetheart,...
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When Susan Prentice returns to her childhood home in Virginia 25 years after witnessing the death of her mother, Dolores, she wishes only to become reacquainted with her formidable grandmother, Alex, a former ballerina. But Susan finds herself isolated in a hostile environment, her relatives obviously fearful that she might recall hitherto repressed memories of the tragedy. Alex is correct but reserved, while her eccentric cousin Theresa is openly...
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In nineteenth-century Manhattan, a young woman is hired to care for a child haunted by murder. Having just lost her brother and mother in a tragic accident, dressmaker Megan Kincaid has never felt so vulnerable and alone. Then comes the startling request from the wealthy Brandon Reid of Washington Square to work as a private caretaker to his violently tempered nine-year-old stepson, Jeremy. Megan reluctantly accepts, despite the facts of Jeremy's...
9) Sea Jade
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In nineteenth-century New England, a desperate young woman's only refuge becomes an inescapable trap. It was fitting that Miranda Heath's first glimpse of the forbidding home at Bascomb's Point was in the fury of a thunderstorm. Despite her late father's caution to steer clear of his friend Obadiah Bascomb's New England mansion, Miranda, destitute as she was, had no choice but to accept the old captain's charitable request. Besides, her father and...
10) Emerald
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The story of a young woman who flees to the Palm Springs home of her great aunt with her small son, seeking protection from her cruel former husband, only to find a whole new set of problems, romance and danger.
11) Skye Cameron
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In New Orleans, a young woman uncovers a family conspiracy only to find solace in a man with a dangerous past. In nineteenth-century New England, flame-haired Skye Cameron was proud to be named for the misty island in the Scottish Hebrides where her father had been born-but it was the Creole heritage of her seductive mother, Louise, that would determine her destiny. In the wake of her father's death, with finances dwindling, Louise has accepted...
12) Silversword
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After being raised by her grandmother, Caroline returns to Hawaii to find out what happened on the day her parents died.
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A Chicago department store is the scene of gruesome crime in this mystery by a New York Times-bestselling Edgar Award winner. Linell Wynn, copywriter for Chicago department store Cunningham's, knows how to put a clever spin on everything. But she's at a loss for words when, after closing time, she finds a corpse in a window display. There he is, as cold and lifeless as a mannequin, his skull pulverized with a golf club: valued store manager Michael...
14) Rainsong
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Her husband was a famous rock singer: his death was a mystery. Now someone was trying to drive her mad.
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The war between the states had destroyed all she held dear, then Lora married wounded Union soldier Wade Tyler. She accompanies him to his magnificent ancestral estate on the island of Manhattan, but Wade is estranged from his young son, and the tragic drowning of Wade's first wife haunts the Tyler household.
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Ever since Dorcas Brandt's husband, Gino Nikkaris, died in a plane crash, she's been beset by troubling suspicions that his shady intrigues in the art world may have been the cause of his death. Desperate for both a new future and answers to the questions about Gino's past, Dorcas whisks her daughter away to the Greek island of Rhodes. Among Gino's family, friends, and former colleagues-and a kindhearted American named Johnny-Dorcas hopes to find...
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Woman Without a Past: Popular mystery novelist Molly Hunt has just made a stunning discovery: She's the daughter of South Carolina blue bloods and was kidnapped as an infant from their plantation in Charleston. But her birth family is a strange brood and meeting them is not the happy reunion she expected. It's only when Molly finds a letter from her late father that she comes to realize how much danger she's in-and what it will take to escape the...
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Window on the Square: Megan Kincaid lives in a house of secrets on Washington Square in New York City. Hired by romantic and wealthy Brandon Reid as his stepson's caretaker, she knows the boy's violent history-one the Reid family has tried to bury. But their mysterious past runs deeper and more dangerous than she realized. Now, as Megan slowly unravels the truth behind a tragic murder, she's torn between a child she must save, a man she's come to...
19) Lost island
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An island off the Georgia coast holds the memory of a broken heart and the secrets of a woman's past. It's been years since Lacey Ames last saw Hampton Island, where she grew up amid the sandy marshes with her childhood sweetheart, Giles Severn, and her cousin Elise-and where Elise had stolen the man Lacey loved. Lacey never forgot the hurt and betrayal she once suffered at Giles's grand family home of Sea Oaks, but a curious and compelling summons...
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