Anne Maybury

When Sarah marries television star Niall Rhodes, to whom she is drawn like a moth to a flame, she has no reason to believe that the rich, full life she had led in her family's home at Guinever, a lovely old castle on the English coast, will not continue. But almost from the start, she and her family, including her wild, crippled half-sister, Dido, her domineering father, Lester, and her beautiful folk-singing sister, Nina, become involved in the ominous secrets behind Niall's public image, an image to which he seems intent on sacrificing everything—including Sarah. Strange clues—an indecipherable note, a headless doll, a mysterious woman in long green gloves, and the Minerva Stone itself—all point to the secret horror of Niall's past life. Bewildered, her life in the balance, Sarah begins a desperate struggle to find the truth of her husband's past and to free herself from his strange hold.

HIS SUBJECT WAS MARRIAGE. Stacy Ernshaw went to Montana too interview a "professional housewife," Sandi Case, for Women First magazine. A few days with the Case family proved to Stacy that true love can create a perfect marriage. But a perfect marriage was not what Royke Larson was offering. This rude, arrogant rancher was interested only in finding a woman to meet his own needs--and Stacy, despite her independent spirit, fit the bill. Royke was everything Stacy despised. He treated women like cattle, to be broken and corralled. Then why did she find herself tempted to accept his strange offer?

In THE BRIDES OF BELLENMORE, lovely young Elizabeth Bellenmore comes to London to live with her wealthy grandmother. From the moment of her arrival, Elizabeth senses that beneath the elegant facade of the Manchester Square mansion lies a quicksand of unspeakable evil. Someone in her grandmother's house wants her dead! A pair of hands has reached out to push her down the curving stairwell that has already claimed two lives! To whom do those hands belong? Her grandmother, who considers honor more important than life? Aunt Geraldine, whose kindly manner masks a will of iron? Her cousin James, whose advances she rejects? James's beautiful wife Armorel, whose jealousy is akin to insanity? Or Mark, the man Elizabether loves...Mark, whose first wife lost her life so tragically at Bellenmore House? What is the secret of the Bellenmores that binds them together unto death, that makes a frightened young girl -- whom someone believes is a threat to that secret -- a stranger in her own family?

Severin Unck's father is a famous director of Gothic romances in an alternate 1986 in which talking movies are still a daring innovation due to the patent-hoarding Edison family. Rebelling against her father's films of passion, intrigue, and spirits from beyond, Severin starts making documentaries, traveling through space and investigating the levitator cults of Neptune and the lawless saloons of Mars. For this is not our solar system, but one drawn from classic science fiction in which all the planets are inhabited and we travel through space on beautiful rockets. Severin is a realist in a fantastic universe. But her latest film, which investigates the disappearance of a diving colony on a watery Venus populated by island-sized alien creatures, will be her last. Though her crew limps home to earth and her story is preserved by the colony's last survivor, Severin will never return.

Walk in the Paradise Garden is set on Chrysolaki, a Greek island where dark and ancient superstitions lie just below the sun-drenched surface. Justine Charles comes to the island with Louis d'Arrancourt, in order to get to know him better and to meet his older sister. However, once on the island, Justine becomes engrossed in the life of a strange young girl, a mute whose only gifts seem to be an angelic beauty and an uncanny ability to project shadow pictures on the wall. An exciting plot develops and draws Justine into conflict with the villagers, into great physical danger, and into passions for which she is not prepared.

Every monster can be overcome if you know the right way to go about it.Maddy has always loved scary stories, especially the spooky legends of her Native American ancestors. But that was before she heard about the Whisperer in the Dark, the most frightening legend of all. Now there's an icy voice at the other end of the phone and a chilling message left on Maddy's door. Suddenly this ancient tale is becoming just a bit too real. Once, twice, three times he's called out to her. Where will she be when he finally calls her name?