There had been a third, but Annabel Winslow had died four years ago - so when a young woman calling herself Annabel Winslow comes 'home' to Whitescar, Con Winslow and his half-sister Lisa must find out whether she really is who she says she is.

    When her job as a governess ends in disaster, Camilla finds herself penniless and alone, stranded on a muddy roadside. A chance encounter with the notoriously aloof Lord Leominster presents Camilla with an unexpected solution to her dire situation: an offer of marriage. Destitute and without prospects, Camilla is ready to dismiss romantic ideals in order to secure her future. But why does Leominster, openly dismissive of women generally and Camilla in particular, want to marry her? Camilla grudgingly accepts, and a loveless deal is struck. But what exactly has she agreed to? As the conflict in Europe escalates and Napoleon’s reach spreads, Leominster is sent to Portugal, forcing Camilla to follow. As everything Camilla once knew is turned upside down again, she tries to navigate this new world of violence and fear. But soon Camilla finds herself falling in love with the man she thought she never could. With war edging ever closer, will Camilla be able to find happiness before it’s too late?

    Gloria, with her stunning beauty and vast wealth, who hungered for everything that belonged to Lucy - even Lucy's husband. Lucy could only wait in dread of what menace Gloria would unleash in this place of haunting beauty and mounting terror - of what evil she would bring to Lucy's life and to the man Lucy loved and knew she could not hold....

    Alvin Johnson, who remembers the early days well, gives us a unique glimpse into an era that was bursting with vitality, humor and enthusiasm: the settling of the American West. Not since Willa Cather has anyone written with such simplicity and beauty about the stalwart men and women who tamed the wild prairie. To read these warm and winning stories is to be carried into the long past days of pioneers and the rugged Frontier. *What makes this a real find for collectors of weird tales is a gothic horror novelette set in Denmark, "Adelbrand's Skull."

    She had eloped with Charles Bryce those decades ago, though she had known him for only a weekend, a weekend in which he had been expected to propose to Henrietta's own sister. Now Charles was dead, and Henrietta had come back to confront her unforgiving sister and the islanders who had made her life into a legend. Here is a beautifully written story of today and yesterday—the novel for which Miss Chute's many admirers have been waiting so eagerly. The people of the island come vividly to life, but the most wonderfully human of them all is the lovely, willful, and enchanting heroine who is obliged to face the past in order to live in the present.