After his grandfather's untimely death, Hugh Anthony Disward visits the estate of his inheritance where he discovers a library that's out of this world. Embodying the archive is Dalian, a clever girl with a sharp tongue as biting as her sweet tooth. Circumstance leads to necessity, and she teaches Huey how to harness the power within, a handy trick to learn, seeing as it's the only way to subdue the monsters brought forth by magical works of literature....

In this homage to Agatha Christie, set in England, an amateur detective finds herself caught up in a real-life whodunit! Miranda Green is summoned to the remote mansion of billionaire Lewis Findley along with five mysterious strangers. What do they all have in common? What's become of their absent host? And who just murdered one of the guests in cold blood? Now Miranda must hunt for hidden clues, interview witnesses, and find the killer before she...

The Tilsons are a wealthy couple who have grown tired of the high stress of life in New York City and are looking to move. Upstate, they find a mansion in the village of Cold Creek which has fallen into disrepair after it was repossessed. Convinced the house has great possibilities, the Tilsons buy it, and with a little hard work they are soon living in their dream home. Before long the family begins to learn the disturbing truth about the history...

A tour of four lavish mansions of cotton kings of the post-reconstruction era: the Swan House in Atlanta, built in the 1920s; Bishop's Palace in Galveston, Texas, built in 1892; Moody Mansion, also in Galveston, built between 1893 and 1895; and New Oreleans' Longue Vue House, built in the mid-twentieth century.