It had been a sunny afternoon when she glanced from the cliff where she sat reading and saw below her in the sea a sight that would change her life.Set in England and Italy in 1910, this is the story of a young English girl who by accident starts to unravel the unknown elements of her grandmother's past and is brought by the mystery to the faraway city of Venice. There among the gondolas and canals, she slowly comes to comprehend the meaning of two strange and puzzling dreams--dreams that seem to hold an eerie and menancing prophecy of the future.Here is all the grandeur and excitement of the ageless glory of Venice and the handsome beauty of the English countryside combined in the romantic and suspenseful story of a young girl's confrontation with the past.

    Thus it was with the Master of Cock Shield Farm, Angus McBain, a man too easily tempted to sin, and those in and around his household.

    Its impeccable recreation of small-town life and its skillful handling of the theme of personality transference between thirteen-year-old twins led to widespread critical acclaim for the novel, which was successfully filmed from Thomas Tryon's own screenplay.This edition features original artwork by surrealist artist Harry O. Morris.

    She found her all right, but it was not a happy reunion. For Laura was being haunted by the murderer who had killed the director of one of her movies twenty years earlier. Laura was being stalked, harrassed, and frightened near to death. And because Leigh was her daughter, someone would try to kill her too....From the Paperback edition.

    Long ago they served as refuge for the Wingate women from the savage tempers and brutal passions of the Wingate men. Now. though they had been sealed for many years, distant echoes of what once happened there still seemed to reverberate in the dimly-lit air. Everyone told Chloe Win-ate to let the ghosts of the fearful past rest undisturbed. Handsome. sardonic Innis Rolland mocked Chloe's efforts to investigate the evil that haunted the old mansion. Cool. level-headed Cecil Mallory claimed that he wanted to take Chloe away with him to safety. But Chloe was in the grip of something stronger than reason, and as in a dream. she found herself opening the forbidden door and stepping inside....

    But now her loneliness is terrible--for her officer father met a mysterious death on a foreign battlefield, and Carla has been sent to live in her new guardian's New England mansion . . . a remote, snowbound place where she finds she isn't really wanted. Together with her dog, Merlin, Carla must make a new start and face demons within and without--for her father's killer is now on her trail, too! A thrilling novel of romantic suspense by one of the world's favorite storytellers.

    Life at the children's amusement park becomes a nightmare for twelve-year-old Joan when she tries to discover who is sabotaging the park's operation.

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    As a top translator for the British Embassy in Washington, sophisticated Nonny Littauer was well-versed in the languages of men but was sorely lacking in the language of love, until York Deland strode into her life.

    The last time she had seen the house called Conover's Folly, she had been a frightened child, watching from the darkened stairway as her father killed her mother, then himself. Now she is back -- eighteen years old, alone in the world, an heiress. She intends to sell the house, to be rid of its memories forever. But she discovers that Conover's Folly holds a secret -- one that may explain her father's actions. And she knows that to uncover this secret she must risk her life...

    But she could not resist the brilliant young lawyer as he swept her into a passionate affair. Now he was asking Fiona to betray her employer, Embla Meredith, queen of the Hollywood astrologists, adviser to the movie greats, and Fiona's lavish benefactor. Could David's accusations be true? Was Embla a dangerous fraud, and her astrology a sinister design of blackmail and murder? Or was it David himself who harbored a strange and terrible secret of evil? Fiona was torn between love and loyalty--and her fate lay--not in her stars--but in her own hands....

    The memories return as small incidents, potentially dangerous, happen to her on the east coast. A whirlwind romance and marriage push bitter thoughts out of her mind. Then the phone calls start again. The blackmailer has returned.

    Worshipped by opera lovers everywhere, Gilda Gianini retained her youth and beauty as well as her talent all those years. But there was a horrible secret behind the sweet pure tones that flowed from her throat, a terrifying reason behind the loveliness of her face. To discover the truth about Madame Gianini, Kitty Telefair was relying on her special occult powers, on the Telefairs' centuries-old heritage of psychic skills. But Kitty was stunned at the battle that followed her search - a battle fought with supernatural weapons, in a shadowy world where evil ruled.....

    The house was cursed by human, evil, or malice from beyond the grave.

    He had built his house with many doors so that he could escape the fire he knew would flare someday. But when the blaze began, no door would open to his frantic pressure.Now Carina was the last Barclay, heiress to a legacy of fiery death. If her would-be executioners were human, she could hope to escape. If they were not, what power could save her?

    She had spent the brief days of her idyllic marriage there, before the seemingly senseless accident that killed her husband. Now she had returned, to discover what had really happened to resist the attraction of a cynical, mocking man who claimed he loved her and to follow a dangerous trail through deception and violence to a terrifying end.

    The orphanage where Silence had grown up had left her unprepared for the dreamlike luxury of this great manor, and for its nightmare danger. What spell did this place cast over all who dwelled here?... the girl who was so mysteriously ailing, strangely possessed ... the servants whose humble manners were masks for hate... the master himself, scarred by a secret past, ruled by fearful passions, with the power to make Silence tremble with his gaze and melt at his touch. Silence was about to learn for the first time what love was--and what evil it could do....

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