Where a ghost with her face walks the halls, can Justine solve a century-old murder?All her life, Justine Blakely has visited a mysterious house in her dreams. Now, newly orphaned at 18 years old, she discovers that the house is real. Even though it means leaving her dull but secure life as a maidservant behind, she determines to go there, no matter what the cost.At the decaying manor house called Shadowside, she is shocked to find that the residen...

The thrilling sequel to the highly acclaimed Gothic romance With This Curse, winner of the 2015 Daphne du Maurier Award for historical mystery/suspense!She went in search of her past… and found danger in the present. Former seamstress Clara Blackwood seems to have found happiness at last. Now a blissfully married baroness, she is mistress of a grand estate. But soon a mysterious summons shatters her contented life. The grandmother Clara never knew...

For the first time, all three of Victorian medium Sybil Ingram’s book-length adventures are available in one collection! Now you can own all three full-length novels and five novelettes/short stories starring the intrepid actress-turned-detective as she uncovers mystery, hauntings, and romance. The set contains:Nocturne for a Widow (book 1): Sybil retires from the theater and stakes a claim on a haunted house, where she investigates a mystery and l...

"A talented writer spinning another entrancing tale!" --Rose Mary Espinoza, InD'Tale magazine (InDTale.com)What if you were erased from your true love's memory? In book three of the Ash Grove Chronicles, just hours after Joy and Tanner’s daughter is born, Tanner finds himself in an alternate reality where Joy doesn’t know him and their baby doesn’t exist. But when he thinks he has found the source of the magic that has undone his world, a heartsore Maddie makes a ...

In the breathtaking Blue Ridge Mountains, Ash Grove High School for the Performing Arts draws the brightest and most talented teens. But beneath the peaceful surface, supernatural forces are at work...Discover the world of Ash Grove, where you'll meet strong, smart teenaged girls and the guys who adore them. This collection includes all three novels in the Ash Grove Chronicles. In The Shadow and the Rose, Ash Grove junior Joy Sumner must s...

"Deftly blends classic vampire lore with Gothic romance, mystery, and thrills." --Dacre Stoker, author, great-grandnephew of Bram StokerIn 1881, an innocent young Englishwoman who ventures into mysterious Baron Dalca's Romanian castle may lose her life, her soul...or her heart.Miss Michael Cargrave is desperate when the death of her bookseller father leaves her in a dire financial state. When she finds a letter from a mysterious foreign aristocrat, Baron Da...

***The ghost may be the least of her problems...***Vivacious actress Sybil Ingram looks forward to a life of security when she leaves the theater in 1873 to marry a wealthy American. But when he dies on their wedding night, she finds herself a penniless widow. Her only legacy is Brooke House, a Gothic revival manor in the wilds of the Hudson River Valley. However, the eerie mansion comes with two tenants. One is a hostile ghost. The second, and far worse, is former violinist Roderick Brook...

Award-winning author Amanda DeWees is known for her tales of mystery, suspense, romance, and the supernatural, often in Victorian settings. Now, for the first time, fifteen of her short stories are gathered in one collection—including all seven stories and novelettes featuring Sybil Ingram, Victorian actress, spirit medium, and sleuth. Also included are four stories never before published! Here are a few of the tales inside:—A Victorian woman photographer finds an unconventional wa...

"DeWees is a Gothic voice for the modern age, where women are not hapless but heroic."—Leanna Renee Hieber, award-winning author of Strangely Beautiful and The Spectral CityIn the late nineteenth century, a vampire did not always take the form of a nightmarish ghoul. Rather, it might come in the guise of a pleasure-loving woman of independent means, an enigmatic aristocrat, or even a woman afire with righteous wrath. Enter the world of the Victorian Vampire...

Some families will do anything to protect their secrets...A haunting Victorian gothic mystery from the author of the acclaimed Sea of Secrets! In this short novella of about 80 pages, governess Medora Yates arrives at remote Hawksclaw House in the dying days of 1856 to find that the parents of her new charge won't even let her meet him. When surly Mr. Hawksclaw announces the next morning that the boy has died, Med...

One man. Two wives. Many secrets.1858: Heiress Eleanor Fairley marries Connor Blake, a heroic veteran of the Crimean War. Only after he takes her to the isolated estate of Sterne House does she begin to realize that he may not be what he seems—and that she herself may be no more than a stepping-stone to his true ambitions.1860: Connor Blake, now a widower, marries penniless beauty Cecily Jaine. In the imposing surroundings of Sterne House, Cecily senses everywhere the prese...

"A satisfying supernatural YA tale that effectively mixes high school, magic and mystery." --Kirkus ReviewsBook one of the Ash Grove Chronicles. In the breathtaking Blue Ridge Mountains, Ash Grove High School for the Performing Arts draws the brightest and most talented teens. But beneath the peaceful surface, supernatural forces are at work...When ordinary high-school junior Joy Sumner visits a graveyard at midnight on a ...