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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Love was a jest Love was a jest Denise Robins Scharlie was pushed into marriage by her mother when she was only eighteen. For four years, her middle-aged husband restricted her social life - so much so that, within hours of her first escape, she… OL11345563W
A Forgotten Girl A Forgotten Girl Elisabeth Ogilvie Val and Alix learn their family is heir to an unusual fortune - half an island off the coast of Maine. The girls are enchanted by the island, until strange things begin to happen. They hear howli… OL16053942W
The Dark Tower The Dark Tower Mary Howard Victorian Era. The ancien manor above the lake was beautiful to look upon, wreathed in the splendor of the Italian Alps. A place of dreams it seemed - where an innocent and romantic girl could find h… OL16697551W
Blackfire Blackfire James Daniel Eckblad Elli Adams and her friends Beatriz, Jamie, and Alex must overcome their own personal challenges of blindness, self-confidence, and Down syndrome as they struggle together to fulfill their mysterious … OL17317145W
The Spell of Mary Stewart The Spell of Mary Stewart Mary Stewart **Omnibus edition containing This Rough Magic; The Ivy Tree; Wildfire at Midnight. / All three stories are outstanding, but I was/am especially partial to ''The Ivy Tree!''** OL1804631W
The Bewitching Grace The Bewitching Grace Jennifer Blake A young girl has been murdered, her body in perpetual slumber among the surrounding trees. The act seems random and unexplainable. Explain the dead lizard impaled on her pillow as a warning. Anne Tar… OL1893715W
The Prince of Air and Darkness The Prince of Air and Darkness Jeanne Rose The Highland villagers warned that Black Broch was no place for a foreign visitor, but Caitlin Montgomery paid their fearful mutterings no heed, for something in those broken stones spoke to her soul… OL1994017W
Not Good for Maidens Not Good for Maidens Tori Bovalino **They’ll lure you in with fruit and gems and liquor and dancing, merriment to remember for the rest of your life. But that’s an illusion. The market is death itself.** Beneath the streets of York… OL25451809W
The Book Eaters The Book Eaters Sunyi Dean ***Truth is found between the stories we're fed and the stories we hunger for.*** Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book's c… OL25958054W
Who Is Deborah? Who Is Deborah? Elise Title THE FACE IN HER MIRROR...It was her face. It had to be. But it looked as unfamiliar as this morning's headlines, as frightening in its strangeness as the bogeymen who'd haunted her childhood dreams. … OL2935627W
Darkness at Fair Winds Darkness at Fair Winds Charlotte Douglas FAIR WINDS, FOUL DEEDS Sent to care for a young widower's son, Varina Cameron was captivated by Florida's Gulf Coast. But the paradise of Andrew McLaren's plantation harbored dark secrets --- not th… OL3452525W
Fire & Ice Fire & Ice Anne Avery **''GRAND HOUSE''**... *It was a huge old mausoleum, a place where p's and q's mattered more than people did.* **Kate had escaped it once, though it still haunted her dreams, along with bitter memori… OL3599646W
Secret of the Wolf Secret of the Wolf Rebecca Flanders The Secret Face of Fear The man Aggie McDonald had struck down on the rain-swept highway remembered absolutely nothing of who he was. But one thing was undeniable--he was no ordinary man. The stra… OL4412216W
The devil's innocents The devil's innocents Mary Howard For the first time, Barbara Crossdyke knew the naked power of passion when the fiery young Spaniard, Ramon Ramirez, declared his love and demanded she be his wife. But before the marriage, Barbara ha… OL4460732W
Sleeping Tigers Sleeping Tigers Sandra Dark Someone didn't want Sabrina Glade to finish the biography she was ghostwriting -- ever. First her subject mysteriously died. Then would-be heir Spencer Bradley emerged from obscurity, demanding that … OL5738983W
The Abbot's House The Abbot's House Laura Conway,Hebe Elsna This story is set in the last years of the Regency, and is narrated by Ennis Corbyn, a spirited young woman, but no beauty, who is adopted by the rich and lonely Marquesa de Verletta, and by her intr… OL6575307W