Mary Fitt

Her father's death left Pamela an heiress at the age of ten--but his will was designed to keep her from his erring wife, who was disinherited. Pamela, precocious in many ways, loved her mother fiercely, and vowed to fight to spend time with her. As Pamela grew to be a desirable young woman, she recognized that her guardian had the power to keep her and her mother apart. And then the guardian died... Pamela gradually realizes the truth about her own past, and about the only man she's ever loved, and finally takes the only means she can find to solve her problems. - GoodReads

Stormbound, Jake Seaborne looks for refuge in Ullstone Hall. He is greeted as a member of the family, yet behind the pleasant voices and forced smiles Jake detects thinly disguised hatred and murderous threats. When he becomes unwittingly caught up in sinister machinations, he finds himself ensnared in a perilous maze of greed, duplicity, and murder.

>Not every woman can collect her "dethroned lovers" and their wives into one room. But then Claribel was not "every woman." Things Happened at her parties and so one swallowed the latest baits and joined all the other poor fish. But having given her party, having collected her bevy of expectant friends, having displayed her three mysterious lovelies, it was painfully bad tactics to make them play a murder game. All sorts of curious things were liable to happen when one let loose such a motley throng in a darkened house. So really it was Claribel's fault, and she had only herself to blame when things did happen.... A fairy tale with a sting in its tail.

Pomeroy's Postscript was one that told his twin sister Marguerite definitely not to come to the Cornish coast where Pomeroy had been placed by their trustees in charge of a certain Mrs. Livingstone. And thereby hangs a tale. It is a complicated British mystery, but Mary Fitt - who has written many for an adult audience - will satisfy a younger generation with a lively story which has scholarly details as well. - Kirkus Reviews