But that was a long time ago.Jane is nine years old and an orphan when she and her young Aunt Louisa come to spend the summer at Jane’s grandmother’s house, a large, mysterious mansion in Massachusetts. Then one day . . . Jane stares into a reflecting ball in the garden—and the face that looks back at her is not her own.Many years earlier, a child of rage and malevolence lived in this place. And she never left. Now Emily has dark plans for little Jane—a blood-chilling purpose that Louisa, just a girl herself, must battle with all her heart, soul, and spirit . . . or she will lose her innocent, helpless niece forever.One of the most adored ghost stories of all time is available again after thirty years—to thrill and chill a new generation!

    Caroline Verlaine, a young widow, comes to work at the estate hoping to discover the cause of the mysterious disappearance of her sister, who had been studying the nearby Roman ruins. Caroline found her employers a strange family, haunted by tragedies of the past, scarred by distrust. Yet she found herself irresistibly attracted to them - especially to the family's dark, moody young scion. But not until she had retraced her sister's fatal last steps could she answer the crucial questions about the family's past - and her own future.

    During his stay he agrees to serve as a guinea pig for a new drug that Magnus has discovered in his scientific research. When Dick samples Magnus's potion, he finds himself doing the impossible: traveling through time while staying in place, thrown all the way back into Medieval Cornwall. The concoction wear off after several hours, but its effects are intoxicating and Dick cannot resist his newfound powers. As his journeys increase, Dick begins to resent the days he must spend in the modern world, longing ever more fervently to get back into his world of centuries before, and the home of the beautiful Lady Isolda...

    These poor, proud, high-spirited people... people whose roots were in the farming country of southern England... in the bawdy and exuberant streets of the East End.Jonathan Whitman, his cousin Myra, sisters Anne Louise and Betsy Pritchard and the enormous Pritchard clan to which they belonged, saw the changing era and the incredible events of a passing age--an age of great poverty and great wealth, of the Boer War and social reform, of straw boaters, feather boas and the music hall.Throughout of years, ambicious Anne-Louise Pritchard, became a selfish vixen who lies, cheats, does whatever she must to get what she wants; but her sister, Betsy, plain and good, who may be the richer of the two after all; and Jonathan Whitman, with his books, his poignant first love, and his dream for the future. Around these three move others who affect their lives: big, lovable Maxie Dance, the natty fishmonger who walks out with Anne-Louise when she is working in London; Betsy's quietly loving husband, Math; Jonathan's strange sister, Emily. And finally the story of one woman's consuming love and of a jealous obsession that threatened to destroy the very man she adored...

    Their courtship was swift, passionate, and filled with the kind of excitement Dina never knew existed.She was certain their marriage would last forever...until he brought her to the family estate at High Towers. Then, slowly, relentlessly, Dina became aware that Glen's twin sister possessed her brother in a way Dina never could.Suddenly Dina found herself alone in a house of strangers. She could no longer trust Glen's love and she knew his sister would stop at nothing to destroy their marriage, not even murder.

    Perhaps by seeing her estranged father, she can discover the answers to questions that have haunted her for years. At the center of it lies a magnificent blue diamond that disappeared, a diamond that Dirk thinks she knows something about...

    At the very instant that lovely young Amanda Smith first gazed at the swiftly approaching ramparts through the rain-streaked car window, a sheet of lightning split the sky, and a sudden, ominous chill shivered through her body. Amanda had accepted the opportunity to come stay at this isolated Swedish castle as a chance for romance and excitement. Why now did she see it not as a welcoming home--but as a deadly lure . . . or a waiting tomb . . .

    Even Janet's aunt, angry for not having inherited the old mansion, turns hostile and threatening.But as Janet draws closer to the truth, she suddenly finds herself in deadly peril from a totally unexpected source....

    Her beauty graced fashion magazines across America. She was married to the handsome, successful Bart Valentim. She never imagined she would be suddenly widowed and left alone with a fifteen-year-old stepson, her only inheritance a forbidding estate on the Portuguese coast. But there was evidence the legendary Valentim millions lay hidden there yet.After arriving at Costa Demonio, Nell and young Chris soon found themselves swept up in a world as treacherous as the savage whirlpool that gave the castle its forbidding name. But as Nell probed the dark secret of her legacy, she felt her heart reawaken to the hope of new love. She was drawn to the mysterious Damon and lured by Alexi's seductive charm. Still, she dared trust no one... not until she knew who loved her and who wished to see her dead....

    She was Melanie Clauseven, of Port Kulshan, Washington, who lived and worked in New York City – OR WAS SHE?That question was to terrify the beautiful young Melanie, who, called mysteriously to her ancestral home, found it inhabited by a strange old man, a sprite like teenager – and an incredible secret.What torturing bond held Whip Benedict fast to the elfin Ursula? Was he mad or was she actually a Clauseven – like Melanie – but from another time and a different order of being?But mostly, what did Benedict want from Melanie? Then she found out – there was an unknown power deep within her, and it turned an adventurous lark into a living nightmare…………