Cirrus@Austlit

'What was the eerie tragedy that threatened to engulf a young girl in a remote mountain village?'

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'In a mist-shrouded mansion, a beautiful young heiress discovers her romantic legacy ...'

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'Lisa was the lovely and innocent victim of circumstance, trapped and horribly entangled.'

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'A sinister stranger sought her life in the home of the man she loved ...'

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'When handsome Paul Acton asked her to marry him, it was the happiest day in Samantha Walton's life. Yet Samantha couldn't know that her love for Paul would soon lead her along a mazelike road of evil deceit to Finisterre -- the prisonlike mansion now owned by the Actons but once a home for the hopelessly insane.

'Samantha didn't want to be separated from Paul at all, but when he received an excellent job offer, his mother asked Samantha to come to Finisterre. There she wouldn't be as far from Paul and at the same time could help the family by putting their collection of rare books in order. And so Samantha entered the Acton mansion, little realizing that once she passed between its high, forbidding gates she might never leave again... '

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'Lovely Diane Montrose came to the mansion called Ravensnest to save a life – and finds her own threatened as she seeks love in a house shadowed by death.'

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'Beautiful young Elizabeth Lagrange could almost feel the fiery heat as she gazed at the burned-out North Wing of majestic Corsair Keep, the home she had unexpectedly inherited from a mother she couldn't remember. For Elizabeth had been left on an orphanage doorstep at the age of three, and until the day Sir Raymond Hartshill came into her life her only memory of the past was of the terrible fire that had nearly claimed her life.

'Sir Raymond opened a whole new world to Elizabeth when he brought her back to Corsair Island to claim the lands which had once been owned by his family but now belonged to her. For in this tropical paradise she would find unexpected romance and face the peril of an ancient evil that had marked her for doom... '

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'Two beautiful women, a love-starved madman, and a bizarre ritual murder ... Weregild Island's ghastly secret would soon be known only to history.'

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'In an isolated mansion, a lovely young woman faces a terrifying encounter with evil ...'

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'One moment she was Bernadette Tyson, a beautiful eighteen-year-old orphan raised by the nuns of St. Brigid's Convent. The next moment handsome young lawyer Robert Douglas was telling her she might be Bernadette MacDonald, the granddaughter of a wealthy Canadian mine owner.

'Before long, Bernadette found herself at her grandfather's home meeting her new family. But evil fortune seemed to pursue Bernadette at the isolated mansion. First there was the open hostility with which her newfound cousins greeted her.

'Then there was the eerie night visitor, beckoning Bernadette to some unknown destiny. And when a bizarre series of "accidents" nearly claimed her life, Bernadette realized that her new happiness could end in a tragedy from which neither Robert nor her grandfather might be able to protect her... '

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'Her first big chance. An assignment any woman would envy: 21-year-old Samantha Crawford is sent to Maine to interview Peter Castellano for 'Secrets' magazine. And moreover, the Valentino of the stage has specifically requested that she write his biography.

'Accompanied by her rakish photographer, Samantha dashes headlong into disaster in a Kremlin-style fortress high above the Atlantic Ocean. She encounters a devastating, ageless man, born to Russian nobility and raised on this estate, steadfastly dedicated to Old World tradition. And she is drawn into the intrigue of Castellano's passionate and beautiful daughter -- a daughter whose love for her father is a threat to every woman who enter the gates of WITCH'S HAMMER. '

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'A nightmare lingered in the shadows. Would it engulf Megan and her newfound love ...?'

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'She unleashed an ancient evil which threatened to destroy her ...!'

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'A beautiful lady editor, a handsome author on an isolated tropic isle. A perfect setting for love ... and murder!'

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'A terrible secret lay hidden in the grim mansion where danger, terror–and love–awaited her ...'

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'Fiddler's Tower, home of bestselling author Margrath Manan was all that her new secretary, lovely young Gwenefa Carnarvon, had dreamed it would be, steeped in the rich legacy of romance and violence of which Margrath wrote so well. But Fiddler's Tower held many eerie surprises. The mere mention of Gwenefa's name and the sight of her face immediately upset the precarious balance of patience and malice maintained by Margrath's greedy relatives. There were whispers of another Gwenefa long ago claimed by the sea. There were mutters of wills, locked rooms, and uncanny resemblances. And there was an evil, long-nutured within the ancient mansion, awaiting only the proper moment to strike.

'If it were not for Margrath's handsome nephew David, perhaps Gwenefa would have fled from the hostility of the tower dwellers. But surely David would protect her from whatever menace threatened. Yet what if he could not? What if she was doomed to the same fate as the Gwenefa who had vanished such a long time ago...? '

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'A headstrong heiress inherits a pirate ancestor's estate and a legacy of plunder and death.'

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'She came to Spain to write a script, but now she was both star and victim in an all too real scenario of terror!'

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