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Silence can be deadly. That's what Nona O'Carty discovers on her first visit to England. It should have been a festive vacation. But Nona was in the wrong place at the wrong time. She witnessed a brutal murder and was struck by a bullet that left her alive but totally deaf. Now the killer is coming after Nona, to silence her forever. Nona doesn't know whom to trust. The counterintelligence agents assigned to guard her? Dr. Brandt, who saved her life? Should she listen to the silent voice of her own heart, leading her toward love? Or should she beware of the silence?

In Paris, Clare Dubeque receives a strange offer from a mysterious Italian princess. The princess wants her great-granddaughter Linette kidnapped, to free her from a house of death, and brought home to Milan to claim her inheritance. The offer involves a large amount of money for Clare—and an even larger amount of danger. The penniless Clare has no choice but to set out on a journey of terror—that may just lead her to love.

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 eighteen-year-old Merideth Hyde arrives after a long absence, anticipation mingled with foreboding, to dispose of valuable, inherited property and to search for her mother—who might or might not have died in the 1906 debacles. Before she can accomplish these tasks, her life is endangered by the plottings of imposters, fortune hunters, and deadly assault...

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’ heart was filled with foreboding. Why did she feel a half-love for Jennifer's fiancé, Richard...a man she'd never met? Why did Nick, the dark stranger they met on shipboard, have an unnerving effect on Iras? And why did the gentle Jennifer treat her at one moment with affection...and at the next with a suspicion and jealousy that bordered on hate? There was mystery here—and danger...dark as the troubled waters they ...

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--The grandmother. A great Southern lady in a proud tradition. A woman with a dread secret--and a violent hatred for the woman who had taken her son... ELLEN--The granddaughter. A beauty in her own cool blond way. Always struggling to free herself from the shadow of her dazzling mother who snatched from her the one man she had come to love... Set against the ...

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. From Pearl Harbor through the McCarthy era, the seemingly indomitable Lombards not only survive but prevail. There's Tony Lombard, heir to the Lombard fortune and to the fierce competition between father and son that is also the family legacy; his actress wife Eden, torn between family and career; Randi and Steve, who together head the Lombard ...

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? And who has the most to fear: handsome, wealthy Mark Thursten, Sybil's seemingly bereaved husband; her sister Carol,who is almost too fond of Mark; or Dion Bates, the mysterious beachcomber, who is too knowledgeable about the family doings? Livia Carter, haunted by the death of Sybil, must learn for herself the secret of the mansion's menacing ghost. For if she ...

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 of their beautiful mother. But nothing could have prepared Livia for the hate in youthful charge’s eyes—or the growing signs they were in league with the evil that seemed to haunt this accursed mansion where so many already died. Could these angelic-looking children be spawns of Satan? And if they were, what kind of man then was their father, ...

Lucifer Cove lay a few miles south of San Francisco. When the sun shone it looked like a picture postcard--a beautiful, green spa where people could take a luxurious, memorable holiday. But shrouded in the fog that drifted in from the sea, it became a harbour for the lonely and the lost, an evil world huddled at the foot of a cliff ... a temple for Satan. Nadine Janos came to Lucifer Cove seeking not love, but power; not sunshine, but the twilight of false hopes. Nadine was a strong woman who always got what she wanted until she met Marc Meridon, the handsome, gentle director of the spa. ...

From the moment Nicholas Bertold first touched her, Alain Daviot knows her fate is sealed. The waves of desire she feels in his arms override her fears . . . including her haunting suspicions that Nicholas killed her brother.
 As Nicholas’s bride, Alain is swept from the English countryside to the gay salons of nineteenth-century Paris, and then to Nicholas’s home, the magnificent, imposing Chateau Bertold. There, she is powerless against her hunger for this man accused of an unspeakable crime. Does she really know the mysterious Nicholas Bertold—her lover, her husband—the man who...

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 his mother might come to his defense and sway judge and jury by her beauty and her eloquence. Among Padge's defenders, if that could be a proper description of those who wanted to see him hang legally, was the town dentist, Doc Millard. But since he was a dark, cynical and somewhat dubious individual, there was a question as to the purity of his ...

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, and again. But Deil Connor vowed to find them all—kill them deliberately, cleverly, in a way to match their own fiendish crimes. It was a deadly game—but who would be the survivor?

It was Jean Benedict’s missionary zeal that had brought her to the Cove—that, and a message from a friend who had cried out to her in torment. But what was Lucy Schallert's plight? Here, at the coastal resort, a cure was offered for lost romances and early sorrows, a renewed chance to live as freely, as vibrantly, as one wished—a chance, even, to call on occult powers which offered excitement and balm for the soul...but at a terrible price. Jean Benedict wanted only to help her friend. But when she met the mysterious and fascinating Marc Meridon, she knew her fight was not for her ...

One by one the lost and lonely women came to Lucifer Cove, each searching for personal happiness…only to meet with disaster, as they encountered the handsome and sinister Marc Meridon. Now it was Maeva Wells’ turn. Because her niece: Jenniver, had been hurt in an accident and taken to the Cove, Maeva was forced to stay there overnight. And when morning came, Jenniver was curiously reluctant to leave. Would Maeva be able to free Jenniver from the alluring spell of Marc Meridon and the Cove? Or would the spell overcome Maeva…and claim her immortal soul?

Senator Jessica March has three men in her life: Chris March, her husband, who seeks to control his wife’s political power: Juan Alvaro, a political enemy; and Bick Haldean, who loves Jessica more than she ever dreamed possible. When violence and murder come to California, Jessica must choose: will she live silently as her husband’s shadow—or fight for the truth to the last breath of her life?

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....

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 housekeeper, whose knowledge is worth more than her life. Benedetto, wily half brother to the Countess, who has two passionate obsessions. Zangari, the gypsy servant, whose eyes finally see one terror too many. Marc Antoine, son of the countess, accused madman and killer who in death wears the most unexpected mask of all. They are waiting for the honored ...