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Katheryn Kimbrough
Full Series List in Order
Saga of the Phenwick Women
1 - Augusta, the First (1975)2 - Jane, the Courageous (1975)
3 - Margaret, the Faithful (1975)
4 - Patricia, the Beautiful (1975)
5 - Rachel, the Possessed (1975)
6 - Susannah, the Righteous (1975)
7 - Rebecca, the Mysterious ()
8 - Joanne, the Unpredictable (Feb-1976)
9 - Olivia, the Tormented (Apr-1976)
10 - Harriet, the Haunted (Jan-2006)
11 - Nancy, the Daring (Aug-1976)
12 - Marcia, the Innocent (Oct-1976)
13 - Kate, the Curious (Dec-1976)
14 - Ilene, the Superstitious (Feb-1977)
15 - Millijoy, the Determined (Apr-1977)
16 - Barbara, the Valiant ()
17 - Ruth, the Unsuspecting ()
18 - Ophelia, the Anxious (Oct-1977)
19 - Dorothy, the Terrified ()
20 - Ann, the Gentle (Jan-1978)
21 - Nellie, the Obvious (Apr-1978)
22 - Isabelle, the Frantic ()
23 - Evelyn, the Ambitious ()
24 - Louise, the Restless (1978)
25 - Polly, the Worried ()
26 - Yvonne, the Confident ()
27 - Joyce, the Beloved ()
28 - Augusta, the Second (Oct-1979)
29 - Carol, the Pursued ()
30 - Katherine, the Returned ()
31 - Peggy, the Concerned (Nov-1997)
32 - Olga, the Disillusioned ()
33 - Phyllis, the Cautious ()
34 - Ursula, the Proud ()
35 - Letitia, the Dreamer ()
36 - Alexandria, the Ambivalent ()
37 - Romula, the Dedicated ()
38 - Laura, the Imperiled ()
39 - Iris, the Bewitched ()
40 - Belinda, the Impatient ()
Book List in Order: 52 titles
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Augusta, the First
- 1975
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Young and beautiful Augusta Merrihew fled England and the strange evil that seemed to haunt her. In the new world of America she hoped to find the happiness and safety that so long had eluded her. When she met handsome and dashing Joshua Phenwick,...
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Jane, the Courageous
- 1975
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When young, breathtakingly lovely Jane Munsk was adopted into the Phenwick family, she was told she should be grateful for the gift bestowed on her. Now the motherless girl would bear the proud Phenwick name, and be heiress to the Phenwick wealth, po...
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Margaret, the Faithful
- 1975
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Young Margaret O'Plaggerty had been in love with Daniel Phenwick since she was a little girl. Even when he was given up for lost in the Revolutionary War, her devotion did not waver, and his return to the great mansion of Phenwick House to claim her ...
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Patricia, the Beautiful
- 1975
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Stunningly beautiful and aristocratic Patricia Kelburn was transported worlds away from the lush Southern plantation where she had been raised. For reasons unclear to her, she was sent to the very private girls' finishing school of La Chenille in far...
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Rachel, the Possessed
- 1975
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Startlingly lovely Rachel Phenwick knew that somehow she was not like other girls. It was not only that she was a Phenwick, heiress to the Phenwick wealth, and to the Phenwick curse. But as she passed the borderline between childhood and young womanh...
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Susannah, the Righteous
- 1975
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UNEARTHLY BEAUTY AND UNHOLY POWER Spellbound, Susannah Phenwick stared at the fabulous sapphire known as the Raja Eye. Stolen from a sacred Indian temple of the occult, transported over the seas by a man who had died cursing the day he had seen it...
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Joanne, the Unpredictable
- Feb-1976
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Joanne was the most stunningly beautiful and dangerously wilful of all the Phenwick women. Even before she reached the age of twenty, she knew how to be all things to all men in order to turn them into puppets of her desire. And from the moment she a...
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Olivia, the Tormented
- Apr-1976
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The ghostly spirit of Augusta Phenwick predicted that the future bride of handsome, virile Joshua Phenwick would be named Olivia - but now Joshua was forced to choose between three incredibly tempting women who bore that name. One was lovely, aristoc...
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Nancy, the Daring
- Aug-1976
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From a sheltered girlhood as a Southern belle into a dark tunnel of terror and horrifying revelation was the journey that beautiful young Nancy Cox took when she fell in love with handsome, aristocratic Peter Phenwick. Nancy vowed that no barrier ...
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Marcia, the Innocent
- Oct-1976
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Lovely young Marcia Wing felt as if she had been rescued from infernal darkness to emerge into heavenly light when she was adopted by the Phenwicks. The splendor of Merrihew Manor, the glowing kindness and dazzling beauty of her foster mother, Susann...
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Kate, the Curious
- Dec-1976
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The world knew Kate Phenwick as a ravishingly beautiful young woman. But secretly Kate suspected there was more to herself than anyone around her imagined, or than she dared confess even to those she loved. Within her Kate felt the spirits of the...
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Ilene, the Superstitious
- Feb-1977
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For lovely, lively Ilene Dumphy, growing up in a poverty-stricken Irish family in 19th century Boston, the world was filled with magic. She believed in the myths of old Ireland, in leprechauns and fairies - but she was not prepared for what awaited h...
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Millijoy, the Determined
- Apr-1977
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From the moment beautiful young Millijoy Gray came in contact with the proud Phenwick clan, she knew she would do anything to become a Phenwick woman. What matter if her birth was clouded in mystery? What matter if her childhood had been spent in tor...
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Ophelia, the Anxious
- Oct-1977
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An abandoned southern mansion on an isolated island became a place of peril for lovely young Ophelia Phenwick. Cast up by shipwreck on those strange and sinister shores, Ophelia soon learned how little she could trust her safety in the hands of the t...
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Ann, the Gentle
- Jan-1978
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Beautiful young Ann Ornby had been marked from birth to be a Phenwick woman - but now unexpected desire had risen like a wall of flame across the path of her destiny. Out of the unknown and into Ann's life and heart had come a man as handsome as h...
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Louise, the Restless
- 1978
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On the surface, Louise seemed the most perfect of Victorian young ladies--a beautiful, talented, charming creature, the apple of her physician father's eye, and a seemingly untouchable ideal to the young suitors who flocked around her. Only Louise...
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Nellie, the Obvious
- Apr-1978
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Beautiful young Nellie Collier had been born with a gift that brought her both intoxicating power and terrifying peril. Nellie could see into the future as easily as most people could view the past - and what she saw filled her with horror. Nightl...
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Augusta, the Second
- Oct-1979
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Augusta had been the first and foremost of the Phenwick women--but now, generations later, there was another Augusta rising to rival her in the fabulous family. Young and vibrant, this second Augusta was eager to test the powers of her beauty and bra...
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The Broken Sphinx
- Oct-1994
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THE RIDDLE OF THE SPHINX: A SECRET PASSAGE A SACRED STONE A FRIGHTENED GIRL. Lorraine Whittaker, a young and beautiful girl, is called to strange, mystery-shrouded Alstare Manor to instruct a deaf-mute child. Here she encounters Mme. Alexandria Ba...
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Peggy, the Concerned
- Nov-1997
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When the doors of the isolated, mysterious sanitarium closed behind Peggy Phenwick, she felt as if the razor-sharp jaws of a diabolical trap were snapping shut upon her. She had been sent to this place to be cured of the illness of body and soul that...
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The House on Windswept Ridge
- Nov-2005
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A PLACE, OF PHANTOMS, CORPSES, AND UNNATURAL EVIL… Young Vera Blake moved into the old house on Windswept Ridge she’d inherited from an uncle she’d never met -- full of hope for a new and enriching life. But her heritage swiftly became a ...
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Harriet, the Haunted
- Jan-2006
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Lovely young Harriet was the picture of innocence - yet within her seethed a secret that filled her with shame, and threatened her with madness and death. Growing up on a lush Southern plantation, Harriet had been victim of a violent act that ripp...
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The Phantom Flame of Wind House
- Feb-2011
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WOULD THE GHASTLY, SPECTRAL FLAME NOW CONSUME HER? Pretty, gifted Sharon Adams recoiled in fear before the mysterious, flickering flame as it moved relentlessly toward her through the dark old halls of Wind House… What evil did it bode for h...
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Alexandria, the Ambivalent
Exotic beauty Alexandria Muzakova had pledged her body and her soul to the ballet. She and her trusted friend, Letty Phenwick, were two of the most promising members of the Leveque Ballet Company, and it seemed that her dreams of being a prima baller...
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Barbara, the Valiant
Young, beautiful and bold Barbara Callahan was willing to do anything to escape the tyranny of her plantation-owning father and the nightmare of brutality that already had broken her brother and threatened to do the same to her. When Barbara laid eye...
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Belinda, the Impatient
When Oliver Phenwick travels to Bavaria to dispose of the castle he has inherited, he and his group fall prey to a manical killer. Undaunted, Oliver remains determined to trap the anonymous culprit who keeps threatening his wife, Letita. So he hires ...
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The Children of Houndstooth
THE TIME: Victorian England in the year 1883. THE PLACE: The North Country, on a vast estate called Houndstooth, where strange and diabolic happenings are rumored to occur. THE HEROINE: Marjorie Latham, only 21, yet called upon to deal with wha...
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Dorothy, the Terrified
The violence of the Civil War seemed remote from the lush and isolated Southern plantation that was beautiful Dorothy Wilkes' home. The shadows of human evil seemed totally alien to her sunlit world of grcious living and courtly love. But Dorothy'...
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Evelyn, the Ambitious
Grinding poverty and sadistic cruelty were all that beautiful, talented Evelyn Jackson had known from earliest girlhood on. Now in the home of her wealthy aunt, and under the spell of the two dazzlingly seductive Phenwick heirs who vied for Evelyn's ...
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The Heiress to Wolfskill
Holiday of Horror Stranded by a raging storm in the Wolfskill manor, young Harriet Langley felt haunted by the unearthly memory of another lifetime. While the dashing aristocrats from London Society settled into a holiday spirit, her mind was dar...
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Isabelle, the Frantic
Since the mysterious death of Elena, her identical twin sister, beautiful young Isabelle Phenwick no longer knew who she really was, or what sinister surprise lay in wait for her each day of dread and night of menace. For Isabelle felt herself becomi...
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Joyce, the Beloved
To know young and innocent Joyce Calder was to love her - and to love her was to risk agony and even death. Her family was the first to find this out, struck down as if by the hand of God or else by the savage strength of Satan. The kindly old doctor...
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Katherine, the Returned
Augusta Phenwick had been the first and foremost of the Phenwick women, founding a line of females driven by passion and drawn by destiny to dangerous loves and unpredictable fates. Now Augusta was long departed from the world of the living - or was ...
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Laura, the Imperiled
"HIDE ALL YOU LIKE, LAURA. WHEN I'M READY TO STRIKE, I WILL." Lovely Laura Stinson trembled uncontrollably as she hung up the phone. An attempt had already been made on her life--a life just beginning to blossom into happiness. Young Laura had ...
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Letitia, the Dreamer
Her parents had died when she was young, and Letty lived with her grandfather in a decaying Southern mansion, doing chores, attending ballet class, and dancing with her friend, Jeremiah. Although Letty was blind to the color of Jeremiah's skin, other...
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Olga, the Disillusioned
Olga Duvane was blessed with delicate beauty, but cursed by recurring heartbreak. On a night of sinister fog she barely survived a ferryboat tragedy, only to lose her beloved fiance to the merciless currents. By a stroke of fate, roguishly handsome J...
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Phyllis, the Cautious
For budding young actress Phyllis Burdick it was a dream come true - sharing the stage with Augusta Phenwick II, the great lady of the New York theater. Quietly Phyllis's own star began to rise as admiring audiences praised her beauty and great gift ...
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Polly, the Worried
For many women the Phenwick name seemed a blessing worth any sacrifice. But for lovely Polly Phenwick, it was a curse she would do anything to escape. Polly was born and raised a Phenwick, and from childhood on every man she loved was struck down by ...
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Rebecca, the Mysterious
Bewitching Rebecca Phenwick's young life had been scarred by a brutal abduction by a runaway slave, and her loving father and strangely hostile mother agreed on one thing: Rebecca should go to the old family mansion of the Phenwick house to escape th...
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Romula, the Dedicated
From the moment lovely Romula Holtzer set eyes on Frederick von Klootz, she and loved him. But the war took him away from her, and she went on to marry a man of wealth and title. When her marriage was ended by a fatal accident, Romula was called on t...
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Ruth, the Unsuspecting
When incredibly lovely young Ruth Eldridge came to Boston to be guest of the proud and passionate Phenwick clan, she little suspected the strange, terror-haunted labyrinth she was entering. But all too soon she learned what emotions seethed beneath t...
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The Shadow Over Pleasant Heath
HER SUMMER’S IDYLL TURNED INTO A BLOODY DANCE OF DEATH The shadow of death hung over the old English resort where young, startlingly beautiful Debora Starkey came to work. Willowby Flintridge had been mysteriously murdered -- and wizened fingers...
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A Shriek in the Midnight Tower
CHATEAU SINISTER The mansion called Le Chat Noir rose like a nightmare version of a French chateau deep in the trackless swamplands of Louisiana. For lovely young Noa Elias, fleeing the memory of a disastrous romance, the very sight of this eerie...
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The Specter of Dolphin Cove
A GHOSTLY ISLAND OF THE DEAD On a remote, storm-wracked island rises the sinister gables of Cordova Mansion, where the living and the dead wander together down groaning secret passageways; where unearthly screams pierce the night and bodies blue w...
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Thanesworth House
The old Southern mansion called Thanesworth House harbored restless spirits from a sinister past -- waiting to terrify and destroy any who dared trespass. Unaware and unafraid, pretty Marcia Kent agreed to play the part of the long-lost heiress.The r...
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The Three Sisters of Briarwick
IN A GHOSTLY MONASTERY SHE SAW THE DEADLY LEER OF SATAN! Barbara Kingston paid no heed to the ghastly, silly rumors dating to the history of Briarwick monastery. She traveled far to meet her fiance’s aging aunts--three sisters secluded in the cr...
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The Twisted Cameo
A beautiful woman is plunged into a whirlpool of love and peril. HAD YOUNG KAREN REALLY LIVED BEFORE IN THE OLD MANSION OR WAS IT ALL A INSANE DREAM? Young Karen Allison came to the old mansion to serve as a nurse and companion to Andrea Pennin...
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Unseen Torment
When beautiful, popular Victoria Hart was summoned back to the old family mansion after her mother's sudden death, she expected to remain just long enough for the funeral. But it was not to be so simple. Her first terrible surprise was that her s...
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Ursula, the Proud
She was strikingly beautiful, with a mind to match, and she ran away to New York rather than be sold by her uncle into a loveless marriage. At eighteen, Ursala Krugger was determined to make her mark in the world. She meant to discover the true behin...
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Yvonne, the Confident
Yvonne Sinclair was a young woman who knew what she wanted - and was willing to use every bit of her stunning beauty, every ounce of her startling inner strength, every weakness of other human beings, to attain her goal of becoming a Phenwick woman. ...
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Carol, the Pursued
A captive of a nightmare religious cult -- that was the fate the beautiful young Carol Ingraham fled, as she fought to achieve her destiny as a Phenwick woman. It was her parents who first put her in the power of the Shiloshite cult, led by a man who...