The young Scotswoman felt a sudden stab of panic. The flight to Spain, the glitter of Costa del Sol, the new job, were to be a break with an unhappy past. But suddenly that break was an abyss of terror as she found herself shadowed by an unknown killer, courted by a dangerous young man, and caught up in a game of intrigue where the prize was an incredibly precious jewel-and the penalty for losing, death.
But Edward’s proud ancestry was marred by an unearthly malignancy that was destined to twist her hopes and challenge her Saturnian endurance.
For, the instant she dared marry him, the ancient family curse against the brides of Capricorn would be hungrily waiting to claim her as its fourth victim.
is the latest great novel of a Gothic saga that sets a new high in intriguing, immersing atmosphere and startling, spellbinding plots. Set in a great manor where women are haunted by a satanic curse that turns love to fear and happiness to horror, it offers you the ultimate in total reading excitement.
The roaring 1920s were moving toward that flaming decade’s climax when lovely young Tracey Osborn came to Wyndham Manor – and was plunged into the dark abyss of the nightmare past. In this isolated house so far removed from time and change, an ancient curse still ruled. No one at Wyndham Manor was immune – not the perversely possessed pair of children whom Tracey was to care for… or the mad old woman whose warning Tracey understood too late… or the ravishing mistress of the manor house whose hatred lashed Tracey again and again… or the handsome master whose passion made Tracey its prey. But these flesh-and-blood perils were dwarfed by the unholy power that rose to claim Tracey as its own – with neither God nor man to save her…
From the moment lovely Darleen Tracy enters the Montaigne family chateau a sense of foreboding brushes like warning wings against her heart.She has come to Chateau des Larmes expecting a romantic reunion with her fiancé, Raoul Montaigne, and to meet his family for the first time. Instead she is greeted with cold resentment. The Montaignes’ hatred is heavy and unconcealed — three of them will inherit a fortune if she and Raoul do not marry. To add to her distress, Raoul has vanished, a chilling mystery surrounding his disappearance. Dark undercurrents of menace pervade the old chateau and threaten to engulf Darleen. With mounting dread she realizes that her life is in danger. Then the secret shrouding Raoul’s inheritance is revealed with a terrifying chase in the muskeg swamps climaxes in violence and shuddering horror…
The year was 1864, and a lovely young Leslie Hallam came to the isolated plantation of Sycamore Knob to escape the horrors of the Civil War. However, Leslie soon discovered that a far grimmer kind of struggle was taking place within the magnificent old mansion.Leslie’s once beautiful cousin had turned into a creature of venomous jealousy. The handsome, dashing master of the house flaunted his mistress before his wife and child, and even Leslie was not immune to the spell he cast. Then gruesome death began to stalk the lush plantation, and now there was nowhere left for Leslie to flee as the walls of terror closed in…
Solange Peters “died” — and so did the scandal and suspicion that haunted her. A bizarre accident gave her the chance to take a new identity — and, as Julie Taylor, she set out on a new life But her job as companion to wealthy, neurotic Bianca Duncan plunged her into a distorted and terrifying existence — with a menace to Bianca’s life growing daily, suspicious “accidents,” and a strange young man who could expose Julie’s masquerade, but bided his time… waiting for what?Tension and terror mounted… until, suddenly, Julie was struggling for her life in the hands of a murderer!
A private first class compartment on a luxury train speeding westward over a continent seemed a dream out of another century to Erin Walker. But this journey was all too real. Aboard the train was the corpse of Erin’s late millionaire husband, found mysteriously dead. And as the miles flashed by, Erin realized a killer was stalking her, a handsome stranger was offering her very dubious protection, and the train was roaring into a tunnel of terror from which Erin might not emerge alive….
As the storm gathered and broke about the old house, Mandy Browning knew she was facing the most sinister force that had ever entered her life, a growing peril that would demand all her resources of courage and cleverness. With a sharp stab of fear she realized she was alone in the house with a madwoman and a terribly endangered child. Had she been right to bring the little prisoner back to the house of tragedy?And where was Oliver? Why — why — wasn’t he there to help her?
Vaguely apprehensive before meeting his family, Geraldine too soon became aware of real, definite fear. Someone at the chateau resented her sudden marriage to Charles. Was it the Indian girl, Fawn, who had loved Charles? Or her husband’s handsome cousin, Matt, who rivaled Charles for mastery over the estate… and coveted Charles’ new bride?
Whoever it was, Geraldine was certain the ‘accidents’ pursuing her were the intentional acts of a murderer…
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