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Three eras. Three young women. Three Guardians, separated by centuries. Aemelia: the Christian daughter of a Roman Commandant. Meggie: accused of witchcraft in the seventeenth century. Liv: a twenty-first century teenager, intent on finding information for a project. When horrors from the past threaten her, Liv discovers she is a Guardian of the mystical Coventina's Well. She must work with the spirits who linger there, and use their combined power to banish evil from the sacred spring. Set amongst the wild landscape of Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland, the Guardians must confront the tragic past and the potential future in order to help each other survive.
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Folk singer Cerys Davies left Wales for the South Downs village of Padcock at Christmas, desperate for a new beginning. And she ends up having plenty of those: opening a new craft shop and tea room, helping set up the village's first festive craft fair... and, of course, falling desperately in love with Lovely Sam, the owner of the local pub! Between mild espionage, festive magic, and a flock of pub-crashing sheep, could this Christmas lead to her best new beginning yet?
1911, Cornwall. Arriving from America, Viola Arthur is eager to spend some time with her sister. Present day. Tegan Burton arrives at Pencradoc House and is captivated by a mystery of a young woman from over a century past.
A summer wedding, fifty cupcakes, and a man she thought she would never see again . . . When Joel Leicester walks into the hotel where Rosa Tempest works, she can hardly believe her bad luck. Out of all the hotels in North Yorkshire, the man who broke her heart would walk into Carrick Park! The last time Rosa saw Joel, it was after a whirlwind holiday when they’d been greeted at his flat by a woman claiming to be his fiancée. Rosa never stuck around to hear Joel’s side of the story—but now, six years later, fate has another trick up its sleeve as a potentially disastrous summer wedding at Carrick Park can only be saved by Joel and Rosa working together . . . This contemporary romance set in England is part of Kirsty Ferry’s delightful Tempest Sisters series, which can be enjoyed in any order.
In this time-slip romantic mystery, a captivating painting connects a young woman to her new artist beau—and to a Victorian diary full of haunting secrets. While visiting London’s Tate Britain museum, Cori Keeling can’t take her eyes off her favorite pre-Raphaelite painting: John Everett Millais’s Ophelia. But it’s Cori herself who catches the eye of gallery worker and aspiring artist Simon Daniels. He’s immediately struck by Cori’s resemblance to the red-haired beauty in the nineteenth-century masterwork. Though the painting draws Cori and Simon together, its Cori who becomes obsessed with its haunting subject. Her determination to learn more leads to a mysterious, century-old diary—one kept by a woman named Daisy who hid a shocking secret in its pages. The further Cori reads, the clearer it becomes that Daisy will stop at nothing to be heard—and that she’s crying out for Cori to help her. As the ghosts of the past envelop Cori and Simon, they’ll discover the truth about the girl in the painting, the woman in the diary—and Cori’s own chilling connection to both of them.
On this romantic Halloween romp through the scariest places in Scotland, a young woman discovers that true love can weave a spell all its own. Young and pretty Nessa hates her full name—Agnes—which she inherited from her great-great grandmother. It makes her feel even more awkward than she already is. But she’s starting to think she’s inherited something much more interesting from her namesake. Family rumor has long said that Great-Great Granny Agnes was a real-life witch. And with the peculiar things happening around Agnes lately, she wonders if she’s got a knack for witchery, too. First, there’s the strange book she picks up in her local coffee shop as if she were meant to find it. Then, out of nowhere, her hunky next-door neighbor Ewan asks her to accompany him on a supernatural research trip through Scotland. It’s a spooky, spirited journey—accompanied by a big black cat called Schubert—that will bring out the magic between Agnes and Ewan in a way neither would have expected . . .
A heartbroken woman retreats to the Yorkshire coast to explore turn-of-the-century art—and uncovers a ghostly secret—in this time-slip romantic mystery. Staying alone in the shadow of an abandoned manor house along the desolate coast of Yorkshire would be madness to some, but art enthusiast Lissy de Luca can’t wait. After separating from her Italian photographer boyfriend, Stefano, Lissy could use a little isolation. Plus, she wants to study the Staithes Group—an artists’ commune active at the turn of the twentieth century. Lissy is fascinated by Sea Scarr Hall, but her research is interrupted by strange events and peculiar sightings. A lonely figure patrols the cove at night, while the discovery of a hidden painting leads Lissy to a chilling realization about the home’s former occupants. And then there’s the photograph of a girl; so beautiful . . . and so familiar. The occupants of Sea Scarr Hall may be gone, but they still have an important message for Lissy—and they’ll do whatever it takes to make sure she gets it.
“Another fabulous supernatural read” in which a long-buried mystery is revealed, and two unrequited lovers are bound by its danger (Books and Me). After her marriage and her life in London fall apart, Elodie Bright returns to Hartsford Hall to spend time with her childhood friend Alex. He’s always been a rock for Elodie, and now that he’s become the Earl of Hartsford, she throws herself into helping him renovate the old house and its grounds. After a freak storm damages the hall chapel and destroys the tomb of Georgiana Kerridge—Alex’s ancestor from the 1700s—Elodie and Alex find a shocking discovery brought to light by the damaged crypt. Through a series of unusual incidents, they begin to piece together Georgiana’s secret past involving a highwayman, a devastating betrayal, and a forbidden love so strong that it echoes through the ages—and awakens the hidden affections Elodie and Alex have long held for each other.