Dorothy Eden

• 1943
• / Gothic
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Old Lynnford Carstairs knew his time was running out; knew he had to provide for his headstrong niece, Felicity; knew that only the fear of losing the Carstairs manor house would bring her to her senses. And so he tracked down Lynn Carstairs, son of ...

• 1948
• / Gothic
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It had been three years since Evan left, and Truda thought she had forgotten him. But she could never forget Charlotte, the hauntingly beautiful girl who took him from her, for Charlotte was Truda's sister. But that was all in the past, a memory ...

• 1950
• / Gothic
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This was what Rodney brought his bride home to. With growing fear Lois realized that she knew little of Rodney's past -- who was Willow, she wondered, the family maid -- beautiful, demanding, family, no more a maid than Lois herself? Rodney's three...

• 1950
• / Gothic
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The voice of the dolls brought Sarah up sharp -- dolls talking on the other side of the hedge! Of course, it was only the clever mimicry of the strange little girl playing a frighteningly adult game with them -- putting dangerous words in their paint...

• 1952
• / Gothic
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When Antonia arrived in Aukland, the voice that warned her of danger over the telephone sounded heavy and menacing. It decoyed her away from the hotel -- and while she was away someone searched her room. She eventually reached the haven of her co...

• 1953
• / Gothic
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What had happened to Camilla? Was it voluntary flight, an accident? Or murder...? Ever since Camilla had disappeared, Alice had been living in her friend's eerie, isolated house deep in the woods, where the strange night sounds could be the cry of a...

• 1954
• / Gothic
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Julia had gone all the way to New Zealand to marry Paul Blaine before she realized she was caught in a web of evil and hidden violence. There was something different about Paul, something that frightened and disturbed her -- all centering around his ...

• 1955
• / Gothic
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The Templar curse was just a half-forgotten legend -- to everyone but Brigit... Brigit Templar Gaye had met with a strange accident, and now lay helpless in her bed in the oppressive old Templar mansion. Fergus, her husband, had found a marvelous gi...

• 1956
• / Gothic
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Mistaken identity and evil desires. When Cressida Barclay rented the vacant flat in the decrepit mansion, she unwittingly became more than just a tenant of the eccentric Arabia Bolton. The strange old widow believed her new roomer to be her long-de...

• 1957
• / Gothic
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It seemed to Emma as if her happiness could never end. Admittedly it was something of a whirlwind marriage to husband, Barnaby, who remained in many ways a stranger, a man she had only recently met, but she felt she loved him with all her heart. Even...

• 1958
• / Gothic
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IN THE SHADOWS OF THE NIGHT, A VEILED WOMAN LURKED IN THE GARDEN, STARING AT THE HOUSE ... WATCHING, WAITING... It all started with a mysterious telephone call that plunged Harriet Lacey into a suffocating atmosphere of terror. With no one to help...

• 1959
• / Gothic
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It was unthinkable that Lydia should admit, even to herself, that she had fallen in love with her sister's fiance... Aurora was beautiful, glamorous, exciting; Philip was everything a girl would want in a man. Then, on the eve of the wedding, Aurora...

• 1959
• / Gothic
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Pretty, vivacious and alone in the world, Kate Tempest always enjoyed an unexpected adventure. When she was hired to escort a small Italian girl from Rome to London, she was delighted. But little Francesca, speaking not a word of English, mysteriousl...

• 1960
• / Gothic
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How long can a masquerade last? Sarah Mildmay had charmed her way into becoming young Titus Mallow's governess. She was not really a governess. But she alone knew that Blane, the man acting as Lord of Mallow, was not really a lord either. Each wa...

• 1961
• / Gothic
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Calmly plotting her future, beautiful Briar Johnson set her cap for gentle Peter Fanshawe, the suitor of her friend Sophie Carruthers. And on the night of the masked dance, when she knew Peter would claim Sophie for his bride, she disguised herself i...

• 1962
• / Gothic
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When Abby Fearon left England to marry Luke in Australia, their brief and exciting courtship had not prepared her for the bewildering change in the man she loved. Instead of a tender, devoted groom, she found a stranger -- aloof, taciturn, and which ...

• 1962
• / Gothic
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The job of tracing the ancestral tree of the mystery-shrouded O'Riordan family at first fascinates beautiful, young Cathleen Lamb. But the past, she soon discovers, is entangled with the present in a delicate but deadly web of violence and suspicion....

• 1963
• / Gothic
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My Dearest Fanny, If ever you have doubts as to what is happening, if ever you are uneasy, will you tell me, or send a message to me or my aunt? If this injunction seems like nonsense to you now, it may not always be nonsense... Adam Fanny knew t...

• 1964
• / Gothic
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Bella McBride and her timid sister Lally had been innocently caught in a notorious scandal that shook all of Victorian England. Orphaned and poor they were forced to seek their fortunes in London, but instead had sadly fallen into the clutches of an ...

• 1966
• / Gothic
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This is the story of Kitty O'Shea, married woman whose love affair with Charles Stewart Parnell in the late nineteenth century led to the famous Irish patriot's downfall. Told as a fictional biography, the author has been assisted in her sympatheti...

• 1967
• / Gothic
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The dramatic novel of men and women caught up in the private terrors and conflicts of a war-torn land. LIZZIE -- known in London as Lady Elizabeth Stafford, fleeing a past of denied womanhood, discovers the meaning of desire in her reckless, searing...

• 1967
• / Gothic
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Pursued by memories of the scandalous trial that rocked London society and resulted in her temporary imprisonment, Lavinia Hurst has escaped, penniless, to Venice. There she becomes acquainted with the Meryons -- Daniel, the disturbingly handsome hea...

• 1968
• / Gothic
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There was something about the tall, dynamic Dane that disturbed Luise Amberley. But he was so attentive, so charming, that she silenced the small warning voice within her and yielded to his passionate persuasions. The wedding ceremony was hasty, alm...

• 1968
• / Gothic
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Five brilliant novelettes of suspense and romance, from the provocative pen of Dorothy Eden. YELLOW IS FOR FEAR: The disembodied voice on the phone had a small "favor" to ask of Janey -- a favor that almost destroyed her... OBSESSION: She had made ...

• 1969
• / Gothic
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It was her aristocratic beauty, her fine English breeding, and her impeccable social sense that first drew Gilbert to Eugenia and made him think of her as the perfect mistress of Yarrabee, the great plantation and vineyard he had wrested from the wil...

• 1970
• / Gothic
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Spanning the years from the pre-World War I period to the present, it tells the dramatic story of a great beauty, Maud Lucie, the reigning debutante of London's fashionable Melbury Square at a time when nothing was more important than the next ball. ...

• 1970
• / Gothic
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Set in Stockholm, it features an alluring and hauntingly beautiful English girl enmeshed in the tangles of international intrigue. "Wilhelmina" is the simple signature at the bottom of a letter from Willa Bedford, but to her cousin, Grace Asherton, ...

• 1971
• / Gothic
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On a leisurely afternoon walk one summer day Ella and her five-year-old daughter come upon an abandoned house with an eerie overgrown garden. For the attractive young housewife and her imaginative child, the old house conjures up fantasies of grand p...

• 1972
• / Gothic
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• 1972
• / Gothic
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From the first time she set eyes on Overton House and on its brilliantly handsome young master, William Overton, Beatrice Bonnington was in thrall. In fact, it was sometimes difficult for her to distinguish which one she had fallen in love with first...

• May-1974
• / Gothic
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THE UNFORGETTABLE 19TH-CENTURY LOVE STORY OF A BEAUTIFUL HEIRESS CAUGHT UP IN THE CROSSCURRENTS OF AMBITION AND DESIRE Christabel Spencer's life had been carefully planned before she was even born. This cherished child of New York's newest millionai...

• 1975
• / Gothic
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Sweeping from China to the Thames Valley, spanning seventy-five years in the fortunes of a great trading dynasty, Dorothy Eden spins a spellbinding tale, of three generations of the Carrington family whose dealings in priceless antiques take them to ...

• 1976
• / Gothic
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"I am here," called Emity, "And occupying your bedroom. You are Patrick, aren't you?" "Your bedroom now, my sweet. I hope I've moved all my belongings. I thought I might frighten you if I used my key, so...May I come up?" "Are you alone?" "Yes,...

• Jun-1977
• / Gothic
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The blood of heroes beats in spirited Matilda Duncastle's veins. Born to one of Britain's legendary military families, Matilda was a direct scion of empire. And ever in her heightened imagination, she heard the rat-a-tat of the Duncastles' most prec...

• 1978
• / Gothic
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Sarah Goodwill becomes the private secretary to Major Charles Storrington to assist him in the writing of the Storrington family history. As Sarah pores over the faded writing, she is struck uneasily by the sinister parallels between the time she rea...

• 1980
• / Gothic
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Destiny had turned her from a lady's maid to a Lady with a legacy of love. "You must grasp the big opportunities in life, Hetty. When there's something important, seize it. It's your right..." Hetty Brown remembered her mo...

• Jul-1980
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-1982
• / Gothic
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The best-selling author of The American Heiress, The Millionaire's Daughter, and The Vines of Yarrabee returns to her own roots -- amidst the barren beauty of the New Zealand mountains -- for this masterful story of an aristocratic family pioneering ...

• Dec-1995
• / Suspense
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When Antonia arrived in Aukland, the voice that warned her of danger over the telephone sounded heavy and menacing. It decoyed her away from the hotel -- and while she was away someone searched her room. She eventually reached the haven of her cou...

• Jul-2013
• / Gothic
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Three chilling novels of romantic suspense in one volume from a New York Timesâ€"bestselling author.  A twenty-year-old tragedy looms ominously in Death Is a Red Rose. Cressida Barclay rents a room in a large, decaying London house from an elderly w...

• Jul-2013
• / Gothic
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In this page-turning novel of unparalleled romantic suspense by master storyteller Dorothy Eden, a woman disappears and her best friend is plunged into mortal danger Alice Ashton arrives in the middle of a fierce downpour to visit a longtime frie...

• / Romance
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It had been three years since Evan left, and Truda thought she had forgotten him. But she could never forget Charlotte, the hauntingly beautiful gil who took him from her, for Charlotte was Truda's sister. But that was all in the past, a memory s...