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"When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she's not only North Carolina's richest woman, she's also its most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four times over, Ruby ruled the tiny town of Tavistock from Ashby House, her family's estate high in the Blue Ridge mountains. In the aftermath of her death, that estate--along with a nine-figure fortune and the complicated legacy of being a McTavish--pass...
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At seventeen, Lenora Hope / Hung her sister with a rope. Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope's End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred....
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Nurse Nellie Lester can't escape death. Fleeing Chicago at the height of the 1918 Spanish flu, she takes a nursing job at a decrepit mansion on a desolate Michigan island, convinced the island holds the secret to her mother's murky past. The only problem? Her dead mother seems to have followed her there. Nightly she's haunted by a ghostly presence that appears in her bedroom. But is it her mother or something more sinister? When the frozen body of...
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"Once upon a time Orla was: a woman, a painter, a lover. Now she is a mother and a wife, and when her husband Nick suggests that their city apartment has grown too small for their lives, she agrees, in part because she does agree, and in part because she is too tired to think about what she really does want. She agrees again when Nick announces with pride that he has found an antiquated Georgian house on the Dorset cliffs--a good house for children,...
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Mexican Gothic meets Outlander in a debut novel in which a woman struggling with her mental health spends the winter with her cruel in-laws in their eerie, haunting manor that sweeps her back through time and into the arms of her fiancé's mysterious, alluring ancestor in the 19th century.
Traveling to be with her fiancé's terminally ill mother in her last days, Saoirse Read expected her introduction to the family's ancestral home would be bittersweet....
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What the sea takes for its own can never return… Portugal, 1750s. Cecilia Lamb knew being a sea captain's wife would mean a life of waiting and watching the horizon for her husband's ship. But John has been gone longer than any voyage should last. Everyone else has given up hope of his return. But she knows in her bones that he is not lost. Gone, but not lost. Barely able to tear her eyes from the shimmering sea, she feels drawn to the sun-baked...
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Readers of Eve Chase and Kate Morton will devour this bewitchingly atmospheric, melancholy modern ghost story set in the lush hills of England's Lake District. There, a solitary woman's quiet life spent in her crumbling ancestral manor house with the company of a child's ghost is dramatically interrupted when her estranged sister returns to share a horrific story of cruelty and desperation from decades earlier...
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Strange accidents and unexplained deaths are commonplace. And everyone fears the dark in Barbara J. Hancock's Scarlet Falls.
A secluded hamlet ablaze in autumn splendor, Scarlet Falls is a seemingly idyllic New England town.... But Trinity Chadwick knows better. The place is haunted to its very core. For Trinity there has been no escape from the specter of the girl in the blue dress. The child's laughter still rides on the tainted mist of the town's...
9) Malum
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The odyssey of Lord Samuel Kainz continues. Hunted by Death, cursed by life, forged by ambition, he knows neither surrender nor defeat. He has no qualms about annihilating anyone or anything that stands between him and his goal. The fate that awaits him is to cancel himself in the oblivion of the afterlife, like all living beings on this earth, but the same will that saved him will lead him far beyond human possibilities. He will sacrifice his life...
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Barford Abbey, a Novel: In a Series of Letters" by Mrs. Gunning. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world...
11) The Witch House
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A young hiker is out one day and ventures upon the old Witch's house nestled in the darkest part of the forest. She is dead, but the house seems to call to the young man, who brazenly enters. Once inside, he finds an old book and begins reading as the story of the Witch unfolds before him. All she ever wanted was to love and be treated like the rest of the town. The animosity of the townspeople, however, changed her whole life and she was forced to...
12) Millersburg
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Harry Cauley's third novel, Millersburg (Bridie and Finn and The Botticelli Angel preceding), might well be described as "New Jersey Gothic." It's set in 1939 in a small town in Northern New Jersey, narrated by Ben, a 17-year-old boy. He's part of a family ruled by Mamu, his tyrannical grandmother, and starts with a grisly double murder that eventually involves his family and changes the family dynamics forever as long-kept secrets begin to unravel....
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Ian Ashtons Großvater, Lord Ashton, liegt im Sterben. Seit dem Tod seiner Eltern ist Ian ihm sehr verbunden und wacht daher an seinem Sterbebett. Im Fieberwahn spricht Lord Ashton immer wieder von Ians vor Jahren im Moor verschollenen Schwester Celice. Zudem nimmt er Ian das Versprechen ab, das Gemälde im Treppenaufgang von Ashton Manor nie aus den Augen zu lassen.
Keine leichte Aufgabe für Ian, der das Bild seit Jahren meidet, denn die Augen...
14) Liliana
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In a lonely mansion, a young woman lives and works with the few servants of the house. As the newest maid, she doesn't know much about the rest of them, or even their employers. But, on an especially stormy evening, after endless tales of the story of the house and its owners, she begins to fear for her life as she tries to discover what is true and what is false.
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Secrets beckon where ghosts walk.
Angelica Peters has accepted an unexpected invitation to Allen House, the Long Island mansion she would've inherited but for a mysterious estrangement. Since her parents' fatal accident, she's casting about for a safe harbor, a connection, a family.
Angelica is uneasy about finally meeting Victoria Allen, the maternal grandmother she's been forbidden to see all her life. She hardly expects the warm reception...
16) His to Possess
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Time passes, but passion-and vengeance-endure.
The erotic memories are not Olivia's own, yet they shake her to her core. And she knows what it is to be shaken: years ago, a deranged stalker drove her into a life of isolation and distrust. But enigmatic Lucian Wilde will breach all Olivia's defenses, down to her bare skin and very soul.
Lucian believes he and Olivia host the spirits of two lovers brutally murdered decades before. He, too, is...
17) House of Glass
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Theirs will be a shattering affair.
The glass chalet has enchanted Reyna since childhood. Built upon the cliff face at Devlin Manor, the luminous curiosity dangles over the Caribbean like a diamond pendant. Wondrous to behold from the water, the house is even more astonishing up close, as Reyna quickly learns when she comes into service at the estate.
Left untouched as a shrine to the beautiful and tempestuous Celeste St. Claire, the glass house...
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Seized by a dark genius, Miles O'Keefe has shut himself away in his ancestral mansion for more than decade. Driven by an unquiet spirit called The Thornleigh Bride, he sculpts masterpiece after masterpiece-and edges ever closer to madness.
His decadent prison is finally breached by Samantha Knox-a woman who has been to the brink of hell and back. She wants-needs-Miles to sculpt her scarred yet strong and beautiful body, to prove she has survived....
19) Dark memory
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"Experience a connection that defies death in this captivating novel in Christine Feehan's #1 New York Times bestselling Carpathian series. Safia Meziane has trained since birth to protect her tribe, the family she holds so dear. All along she told herself the legends she was raised with were simply that. But now, she must call upon all of her skills to fight what lies ahead. Evil has come to their small town on the cost of Algeria, evil that Safia...
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"The follow-up to T. Kingfisher's bestselling gothic novella, What Moves the Dead. Retired soldier, Alex Easton, returns in a horrifying new adventure. After their terrifying ordeal at the Usher manor, Alex Easton feels as if they just survived another war. All they crave is rest, routine, and sunshine, but instead, as a favor to Angus and Miss Potter, they find themself heading to their family hunting lodge, deep in the cold, damp forests of their...
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