J.H. Rhodes

• Nov-1984
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Shauna Travis, a talented young painter, is thrilled when she is among those chosen by an eccentric millionaire to spend the summer at High Cliff, a haven for promising artists. All of Shauna's expenses will be paid and all her time will be peace...

• Sep-1985
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Leslie Pennington loved working as a live-in typist for Lavinia Anderson, who was writing a fascinating novel. But from the first, Leslie felt strangely unwelcome at Lavinia's house. Eyes often seemed to be spying on her, a tension poisoned the air, ...

• Jun-1986
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As Anna Bradshaw drove to Seawind, a big stone house on the ocean, she looked forward to a vacation of sunshine, swimming, and fresh sea air. She did not know about the persistent rumors of phantom lights in the house -- or what they meant. She was n...

• Sep-2013
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Connie Greer had looked forward to her five-year high school reunion in Tate, Iowa, with great anticipation. But almost from the moment she entered town, someone started to play annoying pranks on her -- slashing her luggage, writing her an ominous n...

• Sep-2013
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Fearless, independent Kelly Morgan was always ready to meet new challenges. But her self confidence quickly turned to terror when she became a temporary secretary to charming Emory Dearborn at his mansion. For Blackstone was a place of dire warnings,...

• Sep-2013
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The moment Jane Stewart entered The Towers, she sensed it -- the whisper of evil that seemed to permeate the very air of the huge, isolated old house. But she told herself to ignore it. For Jane had a job to do. She'd come to the mansion to look afte...

• Sep-2013
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Colleen Evans expected to spend a quiet, dreamlike vacation in a rustic cabin on beautiful Lake Topaz. Instead, she found herself living a nightmare. It began with a ransacked kitchen, ominous warnings, and a somber enemy lurking on her own front por...

• / Gothic
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Something was wrong. Lori Hudson could feel it as soon as she set foot in The House of the Crying Winds, her Aunt Hannah's recently acquired hotel. But she had come to help her aunt run the place, and that was exactly what she meant to do! Yet...

• / Gothic
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It was sheer stubbornness that kept Stacey Morgan at Sunfire, the solitary old house she’d inherited from her uncle in Arizona. From the moment she entered the rambling structure, she felt hints of fear, danger -- and worse. Originally, she had pla...

• / Gothic
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When Lindsay Ashford impulsively visited her old Nevada home, now a rustic hotel, she was not prepared to meet Brad Caldwell, the young guest who was sometimes too charming, sometimes too hateful, and always too fascinating. Nor was she prepared for ...

• / Gothic
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When Janis Long, a talented young artist, temporarily moved into Winter House on the Oregon coast, she expected the place to look spooky. In fact, she had gone there to soak up the atmosphere and draw some scary pictures for a children's mystery book...

• / Gothic
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Dark, mysterious Ravenwing...It was the terrifying house that had long haunted Anne Brannon's dreams. And when she inherited the place, she was determined to sell it to pay up some family debts. As she drove to the eerie mansion, she knew her pla...

• / Gothic
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Holly Jackson is thrilled when she gets a chance to design costumes for Deadly Windows, a gothic mystery-drama to be given at the Black Mountain Theater in Colorado. Though she has been involved with several college productions, this is Holly's firs...

• / Gothic
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Ever since she was a little girl, Dana Hanson had been fascinated by Stormcrest, the haughty old mansion that stood near the edge of a cliff, inaccessible and mysterious. When the wealthy Carmichael family moved into the empty house, and Dana was hir...

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"You've got to help me. Please, please come and help me " That was the telephone message Jennifer Parrish got from her sister, Carrie. But when Jennifer dashed to her sister's Texas mansion, Carrie's new husband and their strange housekeeper did thei...

• / Gothic
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It had been a bad year for Paula Darnell. First she had been deceived by the young man she had loved deeply. Then her employer had gone bankrupt, leaving her without a job. So when Paula’s long-lost Aunt Edwina invited her to Louisiana to become...

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"The woods can be dangerous," Burke Dumont, a temperamental theater producer, warns Cathy Foster soon after she arrives at Shelters, her father's ominous, isolated house. Burke is just one of the acquaintances staying at the rustic retreat, since ...

• / Mystery
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Rikki Grant needed a vacation. That was one of the reasons she went to Key Flamingo to help an old family friend, Aunt Clara Dennison, prepare for a move to the mainland.

Rikki loved the small Florida island and enjoyed flirting with two of its ...

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From the moment Heather Dane set foot on eerie Dameron Island, she had a foreboding of danger. She had come here to work as a typist for wealthy Amelia Dameron, and the old woman welcomed her with warmth. Attractive, unpredictable Scott Jordan also s...

• / Gothic
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When Whitney Coleman agreed to manage Heron Lodge for several months, she wondered if she could handle the upkeep, the meal-planning, and a million other chores. Yet she performed all her normal duties with ease. The only thing she could not cope wit...

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Kristi Farley, a talented young painter, is pleasantly surprised when she's invited to spend a month at Greenbrier, a luxurious estate in Vermont. Celia Gordon, the owner of Greenbrier and a patron of the arts, has issued her invitation so that Kr...

• / Gothic
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From the start Ronnie Williams and Bill Hampton were opponents. She had been hired to redecorate Chimneys, a huge old mansion. He was a real estate developer who kept trying to buy the mansion from Ronnie's client, Audrey Marchand. Despite their oppo...

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Hawkhaven. The very name sent a shiver of foreboding through Jill Manning. But she had agreed to spend her vacation there with Stephanie Kimble, an old acquaintance, and she meant to keep her word.

From the moment Jill entered the gloomy house, ...

• / Romance
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Lisa Evans is stunned when she inherits a huge house and a small fortune from Blanche Holland, her late grandmother's friend. That summer Lisa becomes a celebrity in her hometown of Devon Falls, New Hampshire. Suddenly everyone pays attention to ...

• / Romance
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After she was jilted by her fiance, Sheri Huston eagerly accepted an invitation from an artist friend of her mother's to spend the summer in a small seaside town. Sheri liked her mother's friend, Jeneva Gray. And she was intrigued by several of Jenev...

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As far back as she can remember, Marcia Carpenter has secretly adored darkly handsome Gregg Spaniard, son of the wealthy owner of the mist-covered mansion known as Windcliff. And Windcliff itself, located on Teal Island off the coast of Maine, has...