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Harriet's fiance, Kevin, had spent a whole year away from her in the West Indies. His letters assured her that he still loved her as much as ever, but Harriet herself had changed, and she knew that she couldn't now marry him. At the start, Harriet had been so sure about Kevin. She had agreed to their engagement although her beloved father had never liked him, and had blamed him for the accident in which Harriet's mother had died. There was no other man in her life, but she wanted independence rather than marriage.
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First pub 1969. Rainwood family novel. When Alison goes through a bad patch, Great Uncle Arthur bequeathed her his book collection, several hundred pounds and the use of his cottage, on the condition she continues his feud with Larchmore House.
Her 21st summer was an enchanting time for Kay Grant. She luxuriated in the comforts of her family's country house, in carefree games of tennis, romantic garden strolls and casual flirtations. Most of all she loved Pat. However, the dreams she held for the future came crashing down when she discovered that Pat was saving his love for the one person Kay could never challenge; her sister Barbara.
Joanna, a rich man's daughter, is now poor, and has to work for her living. Making a new life on the Scilly Isles, she would enjoy it more if only her employer didn't distrust her capacity for hard work.
When Elizabeth was offered a job in a nursery belonging to some relatives she has never met, it seemed like a perfect opportunity. However, it did not solve the problem of her sister Carol, who was involved with Charles, an obvious rake.
From the author of Rebecca and The Birds: a classic thriller of shipwreck and murder, "rich in suspense and surprise" (New York Times Book Review). On a bitter November evening, young Mary Yellan journeys across the rainswept moors to Jamaica Inn in honor of her mother's dying request. When she arrives, the warning of the coachman begins to echo in her memory, for her aunt Patience cowers before hulking Uncle Joss Merlyn. Terrified of the inn's brooding power, Mary gradually finds herself ensnared in the dark schemes being enacted behind its crumbling walls -- and tempted to love a man she dares not trust. The inspiration for the 1939 Alfred Hitchcock film.
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Was it an accident that befell Sophia, millionaire Jon Tower's first wife, that weekend in Cornwall? When newly wed Sarah Hamilton arrives in England, she expects a brief stay in London before she returns to Canada and a bright future with her husband Jon. But already Jon's estranged son Justin has changed the game by asking if he can return to Canada with them and Sarah becomes increasingly unsettled by Jon's insistence that they visit the house in Cornwall where he lived with Sophia. Buryan is a beautiful house with breathtaking views and cliff walks and Sarah momentarily forgets her misgivings. But all too quickly Jon's mood seems to shift, he becomes secretive, short tempered and withdrawn and Sarah realises that Jon is inexorably drawn to this house because he is trapped in the past. Too late, however, to stop a nightmarish replay of the mysterious events, which led to Sophia's death ten years before.