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  • Bibliography:
    84 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1959
  • Latest Book:
    January 2000
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Virginia Coffman (1914 - 2005) Age 91.

Full Series List in Order

Devil or Lucifer Cove

1 - The Devil's Mistress (1969)
2 - Priestess of the Damned (1970)
3 - The Devil's Virgin (1970)
4 - Masque of Satan (1971)
5 - Chalet Diabolique // Chalet of the Devil (Jan-1971)
6 - From Satan, With Love (1972)

Gaynor Women

1 - The Gaynor Women (1978)
2 - Dinah Faire (Jun-1979)

Lombard

1 - The Lombard Cavalcade // Dynasty of Dreams (Sep-1982)
2 - The Lombard Heiress // Dynasty of Desire (Mar-1983)

Moura or Anne Wicklow

1 - Moura (1959)
2 - The Beckoning // The Beckoning from Moura (Jan-1977)
3 - The Dark Gondola // The Dark Beyond Moura (Jan-1968)
4 - The Devil Vicar // The Devil Beyond Moura // The Vicar of Moura (Jun-1966)
5 - The Vampyre of Moura (1970)
6 - Return to Moura (Feb-1999)

Book List in Order: 84 titles

  • Moura

    Moura or Anne Wicklow - 1

    Spirited young Anne Wicklow left her post as housekeeper at a fashionable girls' school to look after the safety of one of her former charges who was suddenly taken to gloomy, forbidding Chateau Moura by her strange guardian. But once at Moura, th...

  • The Affair at Alkali

    A miner had been killed in Alkali, and there were those who wanted to give Padge Regan the necktie treatment before his wealthy parents could influence the law. But others were determined that the youngster should be given a fair trial, even though h...

  • Curse of the Island Pool

    INHERITANCE: A NEW LIFE…A SHARE IN UNCOUNTED RICHES…A VOODOO SENTENCE OF DOOM. Isle of Romance, or Infinite Evil. One moment she was lovely young Cathy Blake… whose biggest problem was that her past and her parentage were shrouded in ...

  • Black Heather

    A dreadful secret lay in the ancient inn. Would it lead to death, or love? House Of Vengeance. The Hag’s Head Inn had a reputation for evil that even a modern young woman like pretty Kathleen Bodun couldn’t deny. And while she didn’t bel...

  • Castle at Witches' Coven

    THE GOD OF THE WITCHES He said his name was Philippe de Vaudraye, and explained that he was the brother of lovely Climene Beauhan's dead fiance. He told her he had been away in England for a number of years and had only returned to the family...

  • Castle Barra

    Would Catharine Find Castle Barra a Haven -- or a House of Horrors? As soon as she is acquitted of murdering her husband, Catharine moves to his ancient family home, Castle Barra. All she wants is peace and acceptance. Instead she is immediately un...

  • The Demon Tower

    They call her "The Demon Lera," a name her beauty belies: Straight black hair, full sensuous lips, long aristocratic body. Opaque golden eyes. She is Countess Silvana Lera, mistress of an island fortress know as home to -- Mrs. Stitch, the housekee...

  • A Haunted Place

    VILLAGE OF GHOSTS When her car broke down in the long-abandoned French village of St. Lazare, lovely American actress Jane Shore hoped she'd be on her way again by nightfall. But in the nearby town of Marie-des-Mortes, Jane did not find the help ...

  • The High Terrace

    Beautiful heiress Romy Becker was recovering from a disastrous romance when love, in the person of Jay Marriott, walked into her life. And it wasn't long before Romy Becker became Mrs. Jay Marriott. But marriage didn't seem to be good for Romy. Her m...



  • The Shadow Box

    INTO THE NIGHT... How can a woman live happily and plan a normal future when the man she expects to marry may not be the man he claims to be... and may not be sane? -- Margaret asked herself these and other frightening questions as she faced the...

  • Strange Secrets

    Was the man she loved possessed by an evil which would doom them both . . .? Rumors Of Terror . . . It started before lovely newlywed Claudia Helsing even set foot in Shower Tree, the sinister mansion on the cliff hat was to be her home. First ...

  • The Devil Beyond Moura

    When young Estella Varney took a temporary post in the distant village of Upshed, high on the bog-ridden moors, she hoped to see again handsome, mysterious, cynical Marc Branshaw. But she soon learned that the superstitious villagers believed Marc to...

  • The Devil Vicar // The Devil Beyond Moura // The Vicar of Moura

    Moura or Anne Wicklow - 4

    When young Estella Varney took a temporary post in the distant village of Upshed, high on the bog-ridden moors, she hoped to see again handsome, mysterious, cynical Marc Branshaw. But she soon learned that the superstitious villagers believed Marc to...

  • The Secret of Shower Tree // Strange Secrets

    IT STARTED on the ship. Claudia, a bride of a few days, was ecstatically happy as she sailed to join her new husband in their exotic Hawaiian home. Then she began to hear the rumors… OBVIOUSLY, they weren't true. But privately, she had to admit ...

  • The Chinese Door

    The Sinister Sands was what Laura Jason would have called the quiet beaches surrounding the beautiful Hawaiian resort, The Silver Sands. For in these rough waters and coral reefs, "accidental" death might easily claim a woman with enemies. And enemie...

  • The Hounds of Hell

    WOULD HER LIFE END BEFORE HER HONEYMMON DID? Amidst the crumbling and decaying walls of a time-rvaged villa in Venice, Kay Sommers spent her honeymoon. An actress by profession, she had played many parts. But now, almost hypnotcally, she watched a...

  • The Rest Is Silence

    SILENCE IS DEADLY It was Nona O'Carty's first visit to England, and it should have been a festive vacation. She was looking forward with delighted anticipation to the royal wedding procession, and then... But Nona was in the wrong plac...

  • Richest Girl in the World

    Money isn't everything -- but it's better than a broken heart. Married at fifteen to a heartless fortune hunter, Kay Amberley has learned her lesson. She is determined not to let another man marry her for her money. But when love sneaks...

  • The Stalking Terror

    Stalker In Darkness When lovely young Amanda Bishop landed in Le Havre expecting to be met by her Aunt Judith, she found only an empty dock, the rumor of her aunt's strange disappearance, and handsome Jem Kennet. Jem was also looking for Amanda's ...



  • A Few Friends to Tea

    MURDER CAN BE COMMITTED WITH FINESSE … OR IT CAN BE A SAVAGE, FIENDISH, UNHOLY AFFAIR Nine murders had been committed with soul-sickening brutality. And the three killers were free to enjoy the fruits of their crimes … free to kill again, an...

  • The Dark Gondola // The Dark Beyond Moura

    Moura or Anne Wicklow - 3

    What should have been a refuge soon became a nightmare… Still mourning for her young husband, widowed Anne Wicklow arrived in Venice during the carnival preceding Lent to assume the duties of housekeeper at the palace of ailing Mrs. Elvira Huddl...

  • Call of the Flesh

    Krishna Guru preached peace . . . but violent passions ruled the lives and loves of his disciples....

  • The Candidate's Wife

    THESE WERE THE MEN IN SENATOR JESSICA MARCH'S LIFE: Chris March -- He was California's ex-senator, perhaps the next Vice-President. Could he hold his state power through the ill wife who had succeeded him? Juan Alvaro -- He led the stri...

  • The Mist at Darkness

    THE MYSTERY, sets the scene for Anne Killian's arrival at Mist House on a cold winter's night in 1821. In a shock of intuition she realizes that here is no ordinary castle...and that she will be no ordinary housekeeper. It takes but one step across...

  • One Man Too Many

    Shelby Layne was at the top -- the very pinnacle of movie stardom. And that waswhere she intended to stay. If remaining there meant being merciless, that wasno problem. Shelby Layne was ruthless by nature, so she didn’t care who gothurt.As for the ...

  • The Small Tawny Cat

    THE PURRING TERROR Amanda Bishop’s aunt had vanished. She had last been seen in the company of a sinister man who was probably a murderer. But the trail was cold -- and Amanda had no idea where to begin her desperate search… Then the web of...

  • The Villa Fountains

    Where was Toby? Had the garden claimed him? The Enchanted Gardens was the name of the estate adjoining The Villa Fontana. It was a beautiful garden, with marble statuary, exquisite fountains, and dense foliage. But behind the facade of beauty lurked ...

  • Isle of the Undead // Voodoo Widow

    IN THE LAND OF VOODOO... St. Cloud, the tropical island where dashing Sir Anthony Fisher and his beautiful, wealthy wife, Leslie, made their home while Tony worked on his latest novel...St. Cloud, where native drums beat out a nightly rhythm calli...

  • The Devil's Mistress

    Devil or Lucifer Cove - 1

    WELCOME TO LUCIFER COVE... The spa at which Christie Deeth hoped to find a new start in life lay below an ordinary sunlit cliff road just south of San Francisco...yet it possessed a dark, otherworldly ambience, a scent of paradise -- and of Evil.....



  • Of Love and Intrigue

    They sailed At Midnight. Rich, blond, delicate, Jennifer on her way to be wed. Fiery, red-headed Iras, paid companion to the bride. It was to be a joyous voyage, but Iras’ hear was filled with foreboding. Why did she feel a half-love for Je...

  • The Beach House

    Seance of Terror Six frightened people have gathered together to see if the dead can return. Will the unquiet specter of Sybil Thursten appear before them tonight to name her killer? Will she exact her own dreadful vengeance on the guilty person? ...

  • The Devil's Virgin

    Devil or Lucifer Cove - 3

    THE LURE OF EVIL... Diane Deeth's mother, Christie, made an uneasy pact with the fascinating, mysteriously youthful owner of Lucifer Cove. She would dwell with Marc Meridon in that strange coastal resort over which he seemed to have satanic r...

  • Priestess of the Damned

    Devil or Lucifer Cove - 2

    THE DEVIL'S IMPOSTER... Shrouded in fog, the Cove lay just a few miles south of busy San Francisco...a resort for lost, lonely women -- women seeking new life, new romance, redemption from their dark, unhappy pasts... Christie Deeth had bee...

  • The Vampyre of Moura

    Moura or Anne Wicklow - 5

    Anne Wicklow returns to Moura, the home she had shared with her late husband, to assume the duties of housekeeper for the new tenants. The mysterious Maitre Stavko and his eerily beautiful daughter Tyra are running Moura as an academy for young ladie...

  • Chalet Diabolique // Chalet of the Devil

    Devil or Lucifer Cove - 5

    NIGHTMARE IN THE SUN... The only good thing that had ever happened to Kay was her marriage to gentle Leo Aronson, the brilliant industrialist. Now Leo was dead, killed in the crash of his private plane while flying out from the chalet he owned on ...

  • Masque of Satan

    Devil or Lucifer Cove - 4

    MISSION TO EVIL... It was a strange and cryptic letter that pretty missionary Jean Benedict received from her old friend Edna Schallert -- disturbing enough to send her flying to Lucifer Cove. But Edna, who should have been waiting for her, was n...

  • The Master of Blue Mire

    Children of Darkness When lovely young Livia Roy was sent by Captain Nicholas Brandon to the isolated manor of Blue Mire, she was warned that the two Brandon children might seem strange, their minds still affected by the mysterious violent death o...

  • The Cliffs of Dread

    Dread House the gloomy mansion overlooking Ireland's storm-swept coast, where shipwrecks were a common occurrence and salvage was a way of life to the impoverished villagers. It was here that lovely young Moira Bannion came on a visit to her fath...

  • From Satan, With Love

    Devil or Lucifer Cove - 6

    SIX WOMEN had come to Lucifer Cove, each searching for personal happiness...only to meet with disaster, as they came up against the secret of the Cove's true master. Now it was Maeve Weils' turn. She was there only because her niece, J...



  • The House on the Moat

    COULD THE MOAT HOUSE BE HAUNTED! The year is 1810. And the fiery young Irish orphan, Kathleen Killain, arrives at the 14th century castle, the Moat House. Deep in the forbidding countryside of Kent, surrounded by murky river, this old mansion is t...

  • Mistress Devon

    Set against the stormy background of the American colonies before the Revolution, MISTRESS DEVON is the supremely suspenseful story of young Devon Howard, who joins a theatrical troupe known as The Dantine Players. Little does she dream that soon ...

  • Night at Sea Abbey

    IF THE ANCIENT ABBEY WALLS COULD TALK what shocking tales would they tell, wondered beautiful, wealthy Elinor Garrison as the Calders welcomed her to Sea Abbey. Why her brother and Emily Calder wanted to be married in this dismal place was beyond...

  • Legacy of Fear // A Fear of Heights

    LADY IN DANGER After her mother's death, Barbara-Jane Tracey determined to locate her missing father, rakish Tom Tracey. An unregenerate longshoreman-seafarer, he had been divorced by his rich socialite wife twenty years before and never seen ...

  • The Dark Palazzo

    When lovely young Rachel Carewe arrives in Venice seeking her father, the British ambassador, she is shocked by his strangely altered appearance. She is also disturbed by the fanatic hold his housekeeper Mira has over him. It becomes obvious soon...

  • The Evil at Queen's Priory

    A Shadow of Doom was casting its pall over everyone at Queen's Priory, the ancient family estate of the Hildreth's. It began with the unfortunate accident that claimed Lord Gerald's life, leaving his beautiful widow Margaret to raise t...

  • A Fear of Heights // Legacy of Fear

    LADY IN DANGER After her mother's death, Barbara-Jane Tracey determined to locate her missing father, rakish Tom Tracey. An unregenerate longshoreman-seafarer, he had been divorced by his rich socialite wife twenty years before and never seen ...

  • Garden of Shadows

    WELCOME, DEATH As Maureen Durrell stood hanging over the railing of the big steamer she suddenly spied a huge arbor of scarlet hibiscus overshadowed by a sign reading: WELCOME TO ST. CLOUD -- A FREE PORT ISLAND. The beauty of the exotic Caribbean ...

  • Survivor of Darkness

  • The House at Sandalwood

    "They were warned. The place is cursed. Those who live at Sandalwood cannot escape. You will see." Convicted of the murder of her sister-in-law, Judith Cameron spent nine years in prison. Now on parole, she is summoned to a lush Hawaiian island to c...



  • Hyde Place

    In this classic “gaslight” tale of romantic suspense and adventure the setting is San Francisco, and the year is 1919 -- just thirteen years after the devastating earthquake and fire. The City, though, now pulsates with renewed life, as eighte...

  • The Ice Forest

    FANTASY OF FEAR Romantic, young Tawn Tremoyle yearned desperately to escape her carefully circumscribed English life. And when in the fall of 1815 she was invited to France by the wealthy Comtesse de Lussac as a companion for the Comtesse's n...

  • Veronique

    Set at one of the most dramatic, colorful and turbulent moments in history, Veronique is a major novel of suspense and romance. Veronique de Vaudraye -- a young, romantic girl on noble family, destined for the Convent -- finds herself instead dra...

  • The Alpine Coach

    In an apartment on the Rue St. Honore, in a Paris still stained with aristocratic blood, Clare Dubeque receives a strange offer from a mysterious Italian Principessa. The Principessa wants her great-granddaughter Linette kidnapped, to free her from a...

  • Marsanne

    An irresistible heroine... -- An incomparable age... -- A tumultuous tale of love, adventure and danger... -- "Set amid the glittering balls of Regency England and a turbulent Paris awaiting the return of a banished Napoleon, this charming nove...

  • Enemy of Love

    Bride Of Fear. when beautiful, young Madeline Adare severed her contact with Luc Monceau, the French spymaster in London, she knew her life was in danger. Her only chance of staying alive was to accept a strange proposal of marriage from a man sh...

  • The Beckoning // The Beckoning from Moura

    Moura or Anne Wicklow - 2

    Hatred and Peril were her nearest neighbors, beckoning with false smiles from turbulent sea on one side and the treacherous bogs on the other… Beautiful, widowed Anne Wicklow thought she was fortunate to find employment in the ancient, isolated ...

  • Fire Dawn

    Hansi Verin becomes the victim of her divided loyalties during the early days of the Revolutionary War when she is drawn to a young British colonel and equally entranced by the more rugged leader of the Long Knives. The child of a Dutch mother and...

  • Careen

    Beth Milford had come to Saltbridge Tower on the wild and desolate Irish coast to take her motherless cousin Careen under her wing. But instead of the gently bred girl she had expected, she found a sensuous hoyden whose dark knowing eyes looked impu...

  • The Gaynor Women

    Gaynor Women - 1

    THREE FABULOUS WOMEN MAGGILEE -- Beauty, magnetism, willfulness. She had them all, this red-haired temptress from the wrong side of the tracks. She had married into one of Virginia's fine old families and lived to regret it... VARINA -- T...

  • Masque by Candlelight

    When beautiful Kitty Temple, a vivacious American heiress, arrived at glamorous Imperial Paris of 1858, murder plagued the fantastic city of light. But the Comtesse Adele de Sens, Kitty's Godmother, explained that Paris was a city of extraordinar...

  • The Looking Glass

    Gregg Maclvor glanced to the mirror before stepping into the elevator. Her reflection glowed back at her, the shining red hair framed the fine features and the wide, luminous eyes, Suddenly she was stunned with sick paralyzing terror as the face of t...

  • Dinah Faire

    Gaynor Women - 2

    LOVE DEFIANT... Every inch the heiress to the proud legacy of the magnificent Gaynor clan, Dinah Faire flaunted the conventions of her day when she gave her body -- and her soul -- to a dashing gambling man, Nick Corrigan. LOVE IMPERILED... Di...

  • Pacific Cavalcade

    This rich, lusty story follows the lives and loves of the wealthy -- but troubled -- Lombard family...men who chase fortune and power and women bursting with talents and passions they struggle to satisfy -- for which the whole family must pay a price...

  • The Lombard Cavalcade // Dynasty of Dreams

    Lombard - 1

    From the author of Pacific Cavalcade comes the saga of a new generation of Lombards -- a uniquely American family, born into San Francisco's landed aristocracy but soon irrevocably caught up in the troubled waters of war-torn Europe and the Pacific. ...

  • The Lombard Heiress // Dynasty of Desire

    Lombard - 2

    A DESIRE FOR WEALTH was what Andrea Lombard saw in the eyes of every fortune-hunting friend, every would-be lover. The beautiful young heiress to the Lombard millions was determined to run her empire with all the grace and cunning of her grandfather...

  • Dynasty of Dreams

    The Lombards, an aristocratic San Francisco family, find themselves caught up in the danger of World War II in Europe and the Pacific, the turmoil of the post-war period, and the turbulence of the 1960s...

  • The Orchid Tree

    Tracie Berenson was as beautiful and exotic as the lush paradise she called home. Raised on her family's plantation in Hawaii, Tracie stood out among the natives with her creamy porcelain skin and sand-colored hair. While growing up, the world ...

  • Dynasty of Desire

    A DREAM OF INNOCENCE Jany Friedrich was a sleek, sensuous young woman who longed for romance and grandeur. And from the moment the impoverished Parisian beauty laid eyes on the handsome American heir to the fabled Lombard fortune, she believed her ...

  • Dark Winds

    Beautiful, impetuous Rachel Etheridge has her choice of any of the young men in her fashionable London circle. Yet it is a brooding stranger, Jason Bourne, who wins her heart. Jason -- as rugged and mysterious as Emily Bronte's Heathcliff. Jason -- ...

  • Dark Desire

    HE WAS NICHOLAS BERTOLD...AN ARROGANT AND HANDSOME WEALTHY NOBLEMAN, THE MAN THEY CALLED "THE SATANIC FRENCHMAN" From the moment he first touched her, Alain Daviot knew her fate was sealed. The hot waves of desire she felt in his arms over...

  • The Jeweled Darkness

    Elisa Carlisle, a celebrated nineteenth-century London actress, struggles with the memories of a painful, poverty-stricken childhood and a host of enemies, who want to destroy her, certain that Lord Jeremy holds the key to her future happiness....

  • The Venetian Masque

    Three years after her husband drowned during their honeymoon, Jacqueline Godart returns to Venice when a chance sighting in a photograph leads her to believe he may still be alive, and finds herself in the company of a mysterious man, and her life in...

  • The Royles

    The mismatched marriage of Alix Royle, daughter of an American millionaire, and Lord David Miravel, scion of British aristocracy, has a profound impact on the lives of everyone it touches, in a romantic saga set against the backdrop of the early twen...

  • Dangerous Loyalties

    The billionaire Royle family boasts a passionate aristocrat's wife, the wife of a prince, and an actor who claims he is related to the family patriarch, Tiger. By the author of The Venetian Masque. ...

  • The Princess Royal

    The third volume of the Royle family saga starts where Dangerous Loyalties ended, as Princess Royal Alexia Kuragin discovers that 1941 Europe is a volatile place and that her love for Prince Stefan Elsbach has made her a pawn in Hitler's game...

  • Heir to a Throne

  • Emerald Flame

    Historical Romance Large Print Edition In Bath, England beautiful Hester Leland is on trial for attempted theft of a precious emerald a hanging offense in 1816. She s been framed by a jeweler because she refused to become his mistress. Sir Charle...

  • The Wine-Dark Opal

    Contemporary Romance Large Print Edition American ghost writer Roberta Fischer has been hired by famous, yet nearly forgotten Hollywood star, Sybille Halloway to write her scandalous life story. In lieu of payment, Sybille gives Roberta her opal ri...

  • A Splash of Rubies

    Samara is a proud, fierce and deeply independent gypsy girl, feared by the local people who suspect she is capable of witchcraft. Used to living a lonely existence on the edge of the moorland, Samara fears nothing, and no one. But when pretty Dilys L...

  • Tiger's Eye

  • Return to Moura

    Moura or Anne Wicklow - 6

    When Anne Wicklow discovers the story of the Devil-Vicar, a man who was killed in a fire twenty years ago, she finds herself falling in love with his ghost who is now murdering the villagers who were responsible for the fire....

  • Golden Gate People

    Returning to San Francisco after the First World War, journalist Denis Mallory finds that his job hasn't been kept open for him. But he hears that the Kyle Baths are looking for an assistant manager and decides to look into it. Denis soon finds himse...

  • The Fatal Touch

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