Charity Blackstock

Andrew Mallory, an anthropologist, is home from his work in the Pacific Islands. At a gathering he overhears the obscure language of the Islands; it's being used as a code. A young girl is killed for having heard it as well. He had no idea who had murdered Seraphina. Who could want to murder so young and pretty a little girl? Fifty refugee children's lives are at stake; is Emmi, the woman he's fallen for, one of the spies?

Nothing had ever happened to Philadelphia until she made that wish one autumn evening. Her dreams came true that very night when she got more attention than she bargained for: JAMIE, her handsome fiance, was tired of waiting to marry her. He was going to jilt Philadelphia that evening - or was she going to jilt him? MR. ATHERTON, her rich and jaded neighbor, was enchanted by her fresh young beauty. The more he attempted to console the weeping, distraught Philadelphia, the more he wanted to seduce her. FERDY, Mr. Atherton's gambling companiion, was the blackest sheep in the noblest of families. He had designs on Philadelphia - every one of them evil.

Collie Lodge is an ancient house situated on the banks of Loch Ness in the north of Scotland. It is inhabited by several paying guests--and a ghost, a lively spirit named Margaret, whose short and tragic life ended nearly 150 years ago.

He said, "We will be married tomorrow." Then he laughed, " It will be a perfect marriage... We will show the world." He took her in his arms and kissed her.... And so, after a fairy-tale romance, the handsome Adam, Lord Vallence married Evelina, the pretty little schoolmistress. But when the wedding bells faded and the star-struck couple began life together in earnest, they soon found that marriage was not quite so easy. 'Society' could be cruelly snobbish and vindictive. Husband and wife's strong personalities clashed, domestic battles raged. And Adam, loving as he might be, was tempted to return to his former life as a devil-may- care 18th-century rake. Perhaps that was when their story began. the real love story of Adam and Evelina....

The Jacobite rebellion of 1745 left Mary Vernon's father with a black mark on him as a Jacobite sympathizer. Mary knows her father was unjustly accused and vows to find the person responsible. She hears about a man called Ventnor who was in town when her father was accused. She takes a job as companion in Lord Ventnor's remote house on the windswept moors. Alone and friendless, Mary is nevertheless determined to prove that Lord Ventnor is the person who accused her father. But he has a Jacobite mother, a handsome brother, and a devoted servant, too. Whoever it is is equally determined to stop Mary from discovering the truth, about her father or about her own heart.

As Europe races toward World War II, an impressionable young girl plunges into a heady affair more ardent than her most passionate dreams and more dangerous than her wildest imaginings.

Synopsis - People thought Miss Jonas a very odd lady indeed, still unmarried at fifty, with an outspoken way of talking and a habit of wearing exotic costumes she had picked up in her youthful travels. But Miss Jonas was also very rich, so her relatives tended to tolerate her eccentricities. Until, that is, she astonished everyone by deciding to take in an orphaned refugee from the French Revolution. Then her drunken spendthrift brother Thomas saw the fat inheritance he had been expecting going to some adopted ‘French brat’, and he began to lay some rather unpleasant plans. Particularly when the ‘child’ turned out to be the Vicomte de Valmont, a handsome, arrogant, six-foot tall young aristocrat...

While developing a new system to maintain Morganville's defenses, student Claire Danvers discovers a way to amplify vampire mental powers. Through this, she's able to re-establish the field around this vampire-infested Texas college town that protects it from outsiders. But the new upgrades have an unexpected consequence: people inside the town begin to slowly forget who they are-even the vampires. Soon, the town's little memory problem has turned into a full-on epidemic. Now Claire needs to figure out a way to pull the plug on her experiment- before she forgets how to save Morganville...

They had been lovers... but now they loathed each other with an intensity greater then the love they'd once known. Ten years ago the handsome Philippe had been willing to give up everything for Margaret Walters and she had humiliated him by running of with another man. Now destiny had drawn them together again, drawn them to a dank, brooding castle on the English coast to work in the household of a callous army Colonel and his two strange daughters: a castle bordered by a treacherous beach of deadly sands. The ex-lovers had no choice but to bear each other's presence-until fate swept them into a nightmare of madness and terror that joined them with the most sinister passion of all....

Who gave away the position of the R.A.F. Station to the Nazis which resulted in Nicky being so badly burned? When Meg sees her ex-fiance for the first time for six years, he has a new face - provided by plastic surgery - and a bitter desire for revenge.

A lovely and beautiful, aristocratic black student and a liberal white teacher confront emotional and racial conflict, and encounter racial intolerance and hatred.

A novel of a woman's search for life and the truth about herself.

Of course, thought Miss Parkington-Smith, her wild nephew, Francis Shelbrooke, came from the bad side of the family. Now he had married Cassandra, that scandalous actress, with her flaming red hair and sparkling green eyes. Francis' grandfather, her dear papa, would never have allowed it. But what Miss Parkington-Smith does not notice is that the London of 1750 is not what it was when she lived with and cared for dear papa. Around her neat little house have sprung up slums, filled with highwaymen, cut-throats and prostitutes. A brutal outside world, about to burst into the elderly spinster's life with terrifying violence. And that is when her disreputable Shelbrooke relatives decide to lend the respectable Miss Parkington-Smith a hand. They see that her dogged respectability could prove the death.

Exploring famous trials of the past was the job Liz took after the death of her husband. In search of genuine atmosphere she travelled to the village of Lessmere where the ancient Jacobean building, Southarn Folly, still stood. There in one night of extraordinary love, and subsequent tragedy, Liz found fulfillment. She met the ghost of handsome Lord Southarn hanged in 1755; also she met Elizabeth Pentelow, the spinsterish cousin whose profound courage enabled her to survive the catastrophic events which befell the Southarn family.

During the Rebellion of 1798 a seventeen-year-old Irish boy must make sure that a rebel plot to capture an English hostage succeeds.