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The Visitant: A Venetian Ghost Story

Megan Chance · 327 pages

"After she nearly ruins her family with a terrible misstep, Elena Spira is sent to Venice to escape disgrace and to atone by caring for the ailing Samuel Farber. But the crumbling and decaying Ca' Basilio palazzo, where Samuel is ensconced, holds tragic secrets, and little does Elena know how profoundly they will impact her. Soon she begins to sense that she is being watched by something. And when

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Jane Eyre

Charlotte Bronte · 474 pages

The novel is set somewhere in the north of England. Jane's childhood at Gateshead Hall, where she is emotionally and physically abused by her aunt and cousins; her education at Lowood School, where she acquires friends and role models but also suffers privations and oppression; her time as the governess of Thornfield Hall, where she falls in love with her Byronic employer, Edward Rochester; her ti

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Mistress of Mellyn

Victoria Holt · 255 pages

Mount Mellyn stood as proud and magnificent as she had envisioned...But what about its master--Connan TreMellyn? Was Martha Leigh's new employer as romantic as his name sounded? As she approached the sprawling mansion towering above the cliffs of Cornwall, an odd chill of apprehension overcame her. TreMellyn's young daughter, Alvean, proved as spoiled and difficult as the three governesses before

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The Tutor's Daughter

Julie Klassen · 412 pages

Danger mounts at a baron's remote estate as Emma Smallwood, a clever tutor's daughter, decides which of the baron's four sons to suspect and which to trust with her heart.

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Silent on the Moor

Deanna Raybourn · 465 pages

This isn't your average eBook...Prepare to go beyond the page with this ebook exclusive Enriched Edition of Silent on the Moor! It is enhanced with a recipe, list of characters, letter from Lady Julia Grey, and an excerpt from Morag's journal by author Deanna Raybourn that will bring the world of Silent on the Moor to life, all without leaving your screen.Despite his admonitions to stay away, Lady

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Secrets of Hallstead House

Amy M. Reade · 216 pages

"Macy Stoddard had hoped to ease the grief of losing her parents in a fiery car crash by accepting a job as a private nurse to the wealthy and widowed Alexandria Hallstead. But her first sight of Hallstead House is of a dark and forbidding home. Shey quickly finds its winding halls and shadowy rooms filled with secrets and suspicions. Alex seems happy to have Macy's help, but others on the island,

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Window on the Square

Phyllis A. Whitney · 274 pages

Brandon Reid's nine-year-old nephew is impossible to handle since accidentally shooting his father two years before. Reid asks Megan Kincaid to move into the Reid house and work with the troubled boy to curb his violent temper. As Megan learns more about Jeremy and the fateful shooting, she realizes that the boy's father was murdered--by someone else. Last published in 1981.

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The Only One Left

Riley Sager · 400 pages

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNamed a summer book to watch by The Washington Post, Boston Globe, USA Today, Oprah, Paste, Country Living, Good Housekeeping, and Nerd Daily"Propulsive ... a dizzying Gothic whodunit."—New York Times Book ReviewBestselling author Riley Sager returns with a Gothic chiller about a young caregiver assigned to work for a woman accused of a Lizzie Borden-like massa

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The House on Biscayne Bay

Chanel Cleeton · 324 pages

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A Sicilian Romance

Ann Radcliffe · 246 pages

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Belladonna

Adalyn Grace · 400 pages

> Nineteen-year-old orphan Signa Farrow confronts Death – and her own deathly powers ­– when she investigates the mysterious murder of a relative at the Thorn Grove estate.

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Death Comes to Pemberley

P.D. James · 330 pages

Death Comes to Pemberly is a murder mystery based on the characters from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. The novel joins Mr and Mrs Darcy after they have been married for six year and just as they are preparing to hold their annual ball in honour of Mr Darcy’s mother. Everything is going well, Jane and Bingley have arrived and their staff have preparations well in hand. Then the night befor

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The Magicians and Mrs. Quent

Galen Beckett · 528 pages

Of the three Lockwell sisters--romantic Lily, prophetic Rose, and studious Ivy--all agree that it's the eldest, the book-loving Ivy, who has held the family together ever since their father's retreat into his silent vigil in the library upstairs. Everyone blames Mr. Lockwell's malady on his magickal studies, but Ivy alone still believes--both in magic and in its power to bring her father back. Aft

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Mark of Distinction

Jessica Dotta · 437 pages

London is said to be the glittering jewel of society, a world unto itself--but to Julia Elliston it is a city of shadows. Her life is swiftly dissolving into scandal. And in Victorian society, even a whisper of scandal--substantiated or not--can be the death of a young woman's reputation. Now under the watchful eye of Lord Roy Pierson, one of the most influential men in England, Julia begrudgingly

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The Death of Jane Lawrence

Caitlin Starling · 362 pages

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Longbourn

Jo Baker · 331 pages

A novel whose principal characters are the servants in Jane Austen's Pride and prejudice. Sarah, the orphaned housemaid, spends her days scrubbing the laundry, polishing the floors, and emptying the chamber pots for the Bennet household. But there is just as much romance, heartbreak, and intrigue downstairs at Longbourn as there is upstairs. When a mysterious new footman arrives, the orderly real

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The Girl in the Photograph

Kate Riordan · 472 pages

Contemporary fiction. Summer, 1933. Alice Eveleigh has arrived at Fiercombe Manor in disgrace. Hiding her shame in the beautiful yet isolated house, in the care of housekeeper, Mrs Jelphs, Alice begins to sense that something isn't quite right. And that she is being watched. There are secrets at Fiercombe that those who remain there are determined to keep. Tragedy haunts the empty rooms and traces

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Instruments of Darkness

Imogen Robertson · 373 pages

In the year 1780, Harriet Westerman, the willful mistress of a country manor in Sussex, finds a dead man on her grounds with a ring bearing the crest of Thornleigh Hall in his pocket. Not one to be bound by convention or to shy away from adventure, she recruits a reclusive local anatomist named Gabriel Crowther to help her find the murderer, and historical suspense's newest investigative duo is bo

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The Dark Days Pact

Alison Goodman · 512 pages

"In 1812, Lady Helen, taking refuge for the summer in Brighton, learns the Dark Days Club has a secret mission for her"--

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The Minotaur

Barbara Vine · 377 pages

As soon as Kerstin Kvist arrives at remote, ivy-covered Lydstep Old Hall in Essex, she feels like a character in a gothic novel. A young nurse fresh out of school, Kerstin has been hired for a position with the Cosway family, residents of the Hall for generations. She is soon introduced to her "charge," John Cosway, a thirty-nine-year-old man whose strange behavior is vaguely explained by his moth

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The Asylum

John Harwood · 269 pages

After waking up in a small asylum in England with no memory of the past several weeks, Georgia Ferrars learns that her family believes she is an imposter.

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Nine Coaches Waiting

Mary Stewart · 342 pages

Linda Martin, an English woman is hired to be a governess for a young French boy. But a strange terror coiled in the shadows behind the brooding elegance of the huge Château Valmy. It lay there like some dark and twisted thing -- waiting, watching, ready to strike. Was it only chance encounter than had brought the lovely governess to the château? Or was it something planned? She only knew somet

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The Storycatcher

Ann Hite · 348 pages

After Faith, a pastor's daughter, is haunted by a ghost who threatens to reveal her father's sins, she turn to Shelley, a young servant who sees the dead, and they journey through the South together looking for answers.

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