Victoria Holt

Lovely Ellen Kellaway was rescued from a bleak future by her newly discovered guardian, Jago Kellaway, Lord of the Far Island, off the wild coast of Cornwall. There, Ellen was drawn deeper and deeper into the secrets of a past as alive and threatening as the present. There Jago offered her the fabled Island Necklace worn by the mistresses of Kellaway Castle. But was it a promise of happiness -- or a dark symbol of death . . .?

Noelle Tremaston's charmed yet unconventional life as the daughter of the infamous Desiree, darling of the London stage, comes crashing to a halt when her mother takes in a struggling ingenue and disaster strikes. Noelle flees to Paris where, on the eve of World War I, a bizarre twist of fate will lead her into unsolved mysteries -- and the arms of love.

A sealed room. A mysterious map. A dead girl's desperately penned journal. For Annalice, they lead to discovery and danger. Annalice, determined to learn the secrets of the diary and desperate to find her brother, begins a journey that leads her through the world's most exotic outposts: Cape town, the Australian outback, and, finally, to thes lush, tropical islands of the South Seas--where she encounters heart-stopping peril, but also the promise...

Susanna Pleydell gives up her dream of helping others when she meets and marries the dashing Aubrey St. Clare in India, but once the couple returns home she is dismayed to learn her husband is in thrall to opium, the occult, and the frightening Dr. Damien Adair.

As long as she can remember, the exquisite Lenore Cleremont has lived at The Silk House, the luxurious English country estate of the wealthy Sallonger family. Neither a slave nor a servant, she has grown into a young woman who has shown promise as a dress designer. But she has also won the heart of the two charismatic Sallonger sons. Then tragedy strikes.

Found one spring morning among the azaleas, Carmel March was taken in and raised by a doctor and wife. She voyages around the world, returns home to find she'd been rushed away from scene of murder.

No two people are less alike than the imperious Baron and the willful, young and uncomplicant English woman he desires to conquer in the mid-1800s.

A fictional account of the rivalry and enmity between Queen Elizabeth I of England and the beautiful Lettice Devereux.