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1066 - As Haley's Comet traverses the sky over Dorley, England, twins Greyson and Rotrude are born. Their grandmother believes it was a portentous star, and as they grow, the twins discover they are gifted. Rotrude, a lovely woman with a sharp tongue and little patience for fools, is able to read the human heart. Greyson, a handsome man with a kind heart and high ideals, is able to conjure things with his mind.
1086 - The Lord of Dorley, a man named Symond, believes in human sacrifice will lead to eternal life. To attain immortality, he kidnaps adolescent girls from the village, impregnates them, and when the child is born, the girls are killed, and the infants sacrificed to Symond's god. Rotrude and Greyson try to protect the girls by hiding them, but it's impossible to save everyone, so they decide to create an alternate world where the girls will be safe and out of Symond’s reach. They call their world Havenwood and use a coin called the Silver Stag to transport them to their new home. After Symond is exposed and executed, his keep is given to a man named Huxley, and Rotrude and Greyson use their alternate world to protect victims of abuse. Greyson cares for those brought to Havenwood while Rotrude reads the hearts of those in need and brings them to Havenwood. She becomes a legend – the witch of the woods – and it is said that she has lived for a thousand years. 1986 - James Huxley, the only son of the Earl of Dorley, loves to spend his time in the attic of the manor house reading fantasy books. In 1986, his summer plans include rereading the Lord of the Rings trilogy, so when his father tells him they will have a guest for the summer, and that he expects James to entertain her, James balks, until he sees their guest – a lovely girl his age named Mia. At sixteen, James has never had a girlfriend, but he falls head over heels for the seductive American. They spend the summer wandering around the grounds of the manor house, getting to know each other, and exploring the old ruins of a keep behind the house. Mia, who has had some experience with boys, pursues James, and after an awkward misfire, they finally consummate their relationship and begin spending most of their time on the divan in James’ attic. Sometime before Mia’s departure, they go to the local festival where Mia is given a gift by the “witch of the woods,” a gold disk with a cottage etched on its surface. James thinks the witch and her “charms” are rubbish, but Mia likes it and puts it on, mindful of what the witch said when she gave it to her. “If you ever find yourself in dire need, put it on and let the disk lead you to the cottage.” On Mia's last night at the manor house, James begs her to marry him, so she doesn’t have to go back to New York, but Mia, who believes they are too young to marry, vows to return the following summer when they will be old enough to get jobs and a flat of their own. James falls asleep with his arms around Mia, but when he wakes up in the morning, both she and the gold disk are gone... |
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Daisy Brady disappeared one day when she took her dog for a walk behind old Fenway Manor. Twenty-eight-years later, a body is found behind the decrepit old mansion. The victim, David Friedlander, an eccentric with a history of mental illness, is found with a single gunshot wound in his back. His nephew, Ben Arntz, is devastated by his uncle's death, and when he is going through his uncle's things, he is surprised to find a suitcase hidden under David's bed. When Ben opens the suitcase, he finds several photos of a beautiful young woman whom he later identifies as Daisy Brady. Why would David have photos of the missing woman, and did he have anything to do with her disappearance?
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When Marigold Burnside goes to Cape Alden, NJ to research a murder for a cable television show called “Historical Homicides,” she doesn’t expect it to change her life, but when she attempts to visit the dilapidated cottage near the lighthouse where the murder took place, a specter in the road causes an accident that puts Mari in the hospital with a severe head injury. While she recuperates, Mari discovers that the blow to her head has awakened a sixth sense. She now sees the ghosts of former patients wandering around the hospital, and this revelation sets her on a course that will help her solve a seventy year old mystery.
In 1941, a young widow named Charlotte Johnson was brutally murdered. When her body is found, an innkeeper named Carl Morton persuades the local sheriff that his wife, Celia, who has suffered from depression for years and is a burden to her husband, is responsible for the crime, and they charge her with murder. She is tried at a hearing, sentenced, and convicted within hours and placed in a mental hospital where she hangs herself two years later. Five months after her accident, Mari has lost her job and is living in Cape Alden. She is depressed and lethargic, and she’s still seeing ghosts all over town. She names them as they grow less threatening, but one of them is about to shake up Mari’s world. This ghost has an agenda, and Mari isn’t the only one the ghost is after. The man who hit Mari’s car, Phil Curry, is also seeing the persistent specter, an apparition that won’t stop pursuing them until the truth is revealed. |
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Audrey Glenn lives in a Florida mobile home park. Her sister, Grace, lives in New Jersey. Grace hasn’t heard from Audrey in months and she’s worried about her ninety-year-old sister. She asks her great-granddaughter, Mel, to go to Florida and check on Audrey. Mel doesn’t really want to go, but she hasn’t had a vacation in three years. Why not an all-expenses paid trip to Florida?
When Mel arrives at her great-great aunt’s home, she is greeted by a much-too-young man named Jason who tells her Audrey has gone on a cruise to Hawaii. Mel smells a rat and goes to the police, where she meets good-looking deputy named Conner, who is more than willing to help her find her absent aunt. As the clues pile up and Mel grows closer to the deputy, it soon becomes clear that something terrible has happened to Audrey. |
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The haunting, female vision had been frightening visitors to Kendall State Park in Gold Crest, Alaska for as long as Sheriff Edwin Gable could remember so it doesn't surprise him when he’s called to the park after a camper falls off the trail and claims he saw a ghost. Everyone calls her Sandy after the girl in the movie “Grease” for her resemblance to that iconic figure. No one knows where she came from or who she is, but while interviewing the injured camper, Edwin hears something he’s never heard before – Sandy spoke.
Dangerous Stranger is the dark, disturbing story of the events that led to the discovery of a notorious serial killer's victims - both living and dead. |
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Young Felicity Armstrong has been cast adrift by circumstances beyond her control. When she is left penniless and alone by the death of her stepmother, Felicity must learn how to survive. All she has left in the world is a small cottage by the sea, and as she learns to cope with her new reality, a man she hasn't seen in years comes to call. His unannounced visit causes Felicity to wonder if perhaps he has something other than a social call on his mind, and contacts an old friend to help her sort out why this man would come so far just to offer her "company."
Felicity journeys to the home of her friend and there she learns some hard truths about her birth. The information is disturbing, but it also casts new light on the gentleman's visit to her home, and when someone close to her dies, Felicity begins to realize that her parents' lethal legacy might hasten her own death. |
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1796 – A young wife and mother has vanished, leaving a grief-stricken husband to raise their son alone. What happened to Mercy Truelock? Did she get lost wandering in the woods, or did her mad sister, Rose, murder her in a fit of jealous rage, and hide her body where no one would find it?
When Stephen Truelock learns of his wife’s disappearance, he is devastated by her loss. He goes into seclusion, and three years later emerges, resigned to the fact that he will have to raise his son alone. One day, he learns that Rose, who has been secretly practicing witchcraft, performed a spell that sent Mercy “away.” Upon hearing this, he scoffs, but then his disbelief turns to hope when an old friend confirms that it’s true. She saw it with her own eyes. In fact, she is the one who taught Rose witchcraft and bears a heavy burden of guilt for her part in Mercy’s fate. When Stephen asks if she can send him after Mercy, she reluctantly agrees. She performs the incantation, and Stephen disappears into the clouds. When he awakens, he’s alone on the beach in the year 1983. Will he find Mercy? And if he does, will she still love him? As Stephen learns to navigate the 20th century, he doesn’t know that the supernatural forces that bound him to the sky for almost two hundred years are about to right the terrible wrong that separated him from his wife so long ago. |
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But the Children Survived is the harrowing story of a group of special children and a handful of adults who survive a genocidal event covering the North American Continent. Mindy Lane and her terrier dog, Baby Girl, have also survived the devastation. The mystery of their immunity is at the heart of the story, a story that follows one man's desire to create a cure for miscarriage, and another's desire to create the ultimate weapon.
"But the Children Survived" has earned five-star reviews on Amazon.com. It is a post-apocalyptic, science-fiction, fantasy. |
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Hannah Dawes loves to paint. She dreams of being a great artist. Her sand sculptures and paintings win her acclaim in her local community of New Beach, New Jersey, but when circumstances take her away from the Jersey shore, she must learn to love the sprawling vistas of High Bend, Colorado.
Strangers in a strange land, Hannah and her family travel across the country to live with Hannah's Uncle James, a bachelor rancher whom Hannah has never met. Life on the ranch is hard, and Hannah misses her old home, that is until she starts to pain the glorious Colorado landscapes, and catches the eye of a shy young ranch hand named Adam. At first Hannah resists her romantic impulses, but Adam's quiet strength soon wins her over. As they grow closer things seem rosy, until someone from Hannah's past turns up in High Bend - a man who is determined to have her, no matter what the cost. |