Renate Chapman

• Aug-2013
• / Historical
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Millicent Avery was just like a grandmother to Courtney Winthrop. So when Courtney visited Millicent, she was glad to see that Alfred and Bess Madigan, the recently hired couple, were conscientiously looking after the frail old woman and her house in...

• Oct-2013
• / Gothic
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Francesca Smith had planned a vacation trip to Massachusetts. But echoes from the past, echoes of mystery and love, induced her to stay at Hidden Inn in Moriarty, Connecticut. Francesca had lived in Moriarty with her parents many years ago. Then they...

• Oct-2013
• / Gothic
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Quite suddenly Violet Maybury found herself at a magnificent mansion on Paradise Point, secretly engaged to handsome, aristocratic Brandon Purcell and working as secretary-companion to his great-aunt. Before marrying Violet, whose family was anything...

• Oct-2013
• / Gothic
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Jenny Marston considered herself the happiest girl in the world. She was engaged to fascinating, dynamic Lee Rawlings, who would one day inherit his father's vast business empire, and she loved him more than she'd ever believed possible. But thing...

• Oct-2013
• / Gothic
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For Rachel Simmons it was a summer of unveiling secrets. First there was the secret of the Hudson Valley cottage she'd just inherited. Someone had ransacked it thoroughly, yet stolen nothing of value. What had the intruder been looking for? Then came...

• Oct-2013
• / Gothic
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Rebecca Holmes, a young artist, was excited about moving to Blackstone Place in eastern Pennsylvania. There she would be able to paint while acting as a companion to motherless Felicia Weyland, the stepniece of wealthy, charming Derek Blackstone. Reb...

• / Gothic
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Gifted young artist Ramona Martin was thrilled when she was hired to do some work for Elena Delmar, a glamorous ex-movie actress. But Ramona's world soon became as unreal as the unicorns she was stenciling on the foyer walls of Elena's mansion. For t...

• / Gothic
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Shivering more from fright than from the predawn chill permeating the crumbling adobe of the desert ghost town where she hid, Rae Nardeen let her mind reel backward over the events leading up to her desperate �,ight into the eerie stillness of th...

• / Gothic
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As soon as Aurora Jackson arrives at Gabriella, the old Mississippi mansion where she will work as a manuscript typist, she feels the place is strangely familiar. Though her typing proceeds smoothly, Aurora's sense of déjà vu haunts her more and...

• / Gothic
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Olive Dancey was filled with foreboding from the moment she arrived for her visit at the ominous gray mansion known as the Shadows, the home of Damon Arlington, her fiance. Though she had been prepared for an icy reception from Damon's aristocrat...

• / Gothic
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For six long years Miranda Calvin is haunted by marionette figures dancing around in her head. Figures of the people present at her grandfather's house the day a murder was committed there. Miranda's father had been accused of the crime. And though ...

• / Gothic
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Amber Markham, a promising young model, dropped everything when she was summoned to Jacob Carrington's Indiana mansion. For the old man was like a grandfather to her and she would not have refused his request even if she knew of the dangers that a...

• / Gothic
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"Genevieve... oh, Genevieve... come to the lake," a strange, thick voice whispered through the night. -- At first Genevieve Ashburton was not sure whether she was hearing or imagining the soft, scary command. But then she realized the hypnotic voic...

• / Gothic
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As a librarian, Heather Radcliffe knew that the word nirvana connoted peace. But Nirvana, the fabled old mansion on ghost-ridden Mystic Island, held no peace for Heather. For her, it meant secrecy and deceit. The legends of the tiny island off the...

• / Gothic
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Could she trust Ted Pulaski? Pretty Tania Harding was prepared to trust no one when she arrived at her great-aunts' Victorian mansion in Cincinnati on her grim mission. Tania's expressive brown eyes were haunted by sadness, and she often re�...

• / Gothic
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Lucinda Hamilton thought she could be happy again -- well, at least content -- if only she could forget Phillip Wilson and their heartbreaking romance. That was why she had agreed to spend the summer at her Aunt Phoebe's riverside cabin in Tenness...