The haughty, aristocratic Ushers live in a mansion near Asheville; the poor but crafty mountain folk (whose families are just as ancient) live on Briartop Mountain nearby. At harvest time, when the book's action unfolds, the mountains are a blaze of color. Add to the mixture a sinister history of mountain kids disappearing every year, a journalist investigating those disappearances, a monster called "The Pumpkin Man," moldy books and paintings in a huge old library at the Usher estate, and a secret chamber with a strange device involving a brass pendulum and tuning forks--and you've got a splendid recipe for atmospheric horror.Originally published: New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1984.

    But her return holds no joy, for the young woman who greets her at the door of Witchwood Hall insists that she is Jemimah Lawley.Branded an impostor, doubting her very sanity, Jemimah becomes an outcast--until a beautiful benefactress takes her under her wing. But dark, hidden passions shadow her newfound contentment. Only when Jemimah deciphers the cryptic, fevered message Kassim once whispered to her in the Asian wasteland--"Stormswift"--can she hope to find peace and happiness.

    St Frumble’s Day, 1892.A peepshow of eight die-cut sections, view from a peephole in the front pictorial board through to the rear pictorial board.

    

    But at Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, Caroline lets slip a secret. It is nearly fatal. Caroline's promising future dissolves without her knowing why. Her search for answers violates the iron rules of Victorian society. It takes her to the wild moors of Cornwall and pits her against her shy, pretty sister. It also brings her the man of her dreams, Paul Landower. . .dark, mysterious, trapped in his own past. . .a past that may include a legacy of murder.

    

    Young, penniless, alone in the world, she was eager to call someplace home. And when Heather saw the magnificent rose-strewn grounds of Rosemerryn, she knew she had at last found a haven. Perched upon the jagged rocks overlooking the violent sea, Rosemerryn almost seemed a part of the fearsome cliffs. Though the strong-willed elderly aunt didn't want a companion, they soon become adversaries. Soon Heather learned that danger as well as beauty lurked in Rosemerryn--in ghosts long dead, in mysterie yet unsolved, and even in the arms of Geoffrey Ashley, the enigmatic master of Rosemerryn!

    When a stepmother's hatred forces her to flee her beloved home, Sandra becomes a companion to the celebrated Countess of Kyle. The boldest day-dreams of this country beauty are surpassed when romance blooms. Only a blackmailing Beau and a seductice Russian princess stand between Sandra and absolute ecstasy...

    Through a comparative analysis of the cathedrals of Chartres, Reims, and Amiens, the author illuminates the technical, theological, artistic, and social factors that formed the High Gothic synthesis. Drawing on a lifetime of scholarship, he successively characterizes the different parts of the Gothic cathedral and describes the human context of the three great buildings.

    She knew how to smile ingratiatingly at William, arrogant master of the household, and to hide her hatred of Alan, the spoiled favorite son. But she didn't know how she was to get back what rightfully belonged to her. Until Judith - William's beautiful, pampered new wife, a woman too young and wild for a husband twice her age. She would befriend Elizabeth - and then betray her. But in that betrayal she would reveal to Elizabeth a powerful secret - the key to a poor woman's sweet dreams of having everything her heart desired - especially sweet revenge.

    Set in a peaceful Irish valley, it gave no outward sign of the turmoil and danger inside. Charlotte Bolton found herself the unwitting victim of manipulation and evil, although she had come simply to be married! It began when Richard Chivers, her intended, claimed no knowledge of the marriage arrangement. He was lying, as did everyone at Rathmaiden. Yet why? Charlotte discovered her future was tied to Rathmaiden's past, and the beautiful haunting specter of Nell Dillon. Was Nell dead or alive, and how was she bound to Richard Chivers? To prevent another tragedy, Charlotte must find the answers. yet to do so threatened her chances of happiness with Richard — the man who had become more important than life itself!

    Instead of the happy home and loving family she hopes to find, she meets hostility and disbelief. From the moment that the telegram to Jura House announcing her arrival goes astray and she is almost run down by an unknown rider Linnet is drawn deeper and deeper into problems. To compound her emotional distress Linnet finds that her late husband’s brother Dougal is his exact twin, while the two aged aunts who raised both boys detest her and want her gone. Simon Fordyce, their closest neighbor, inhabits the Castle, the palatial house the MacLellans regard as their rightful home. The MacLellans regard Fordyce as an interloper and intend to reclaim the Castle, no matter what the law says. To make things even more hostile, Fordyce is intent on putting a mill into the valley in direct contravention to the traditional farming industry Dougal wishes to revive. Tension reaches a fever pitch as both men determinedly court Linnet, then matters take a much darker turn when someone starts making attempts against Linnet’s life.

    But almost from the moment she entered town, someone started to play annoying pranks on her—slashing her luggage, writing her an ominous note, letting air out of her tires—that took the fun out of the occasion.Soon the pranks took a more sinister turn, and Connie started to fear for her life. Did one of her old classmates bear her a grudge from years ago? Or was someone dangerously jealous of her newfound rapport with handsome Grant Hendricks? Most important of all, would the culprit be caught before he or she did some lethal harm?

    In the dazzling mountains of New Mexico, Sarah Wingate, recovering from a broken engagement, finds a chance for new love.