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Nurse in Spain
by Diana Douglas
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1975 - A nurse is transferred to a job in Spain - and finds herself involved with a mysterious doctor...and a famous matador - both with mysterious pasts!
$5.00


Child of Darkness
by Dorothy Daniels
- 1974 - A young woman comes back to live in the family mansion with the father she never knew. But why do people think she wants him dead?
$4.00


Shadows from the Past
by Dorothy Daniels

- 1972 - A young woman takes a secretarial job with the parents who had abandoned her at birth - but now finds someone is trying to kill her!
$3.00


In the Midst of Earth
by Marilyn Harris

- 1970 - An orphan grows up in a strange house on a Southwestern prairie. Only to have her guardian take a romantic interest in her when she's all grown up.
$5.00


The Terror Trap
by Willo Davis Roberts

- 1971 - A young woman and her retarded teenaged sister are orphaned and must go to live with their aunt in her boarding house. But is she really their aunt, and what is she up to?
$3.00


The Turret Room  
byCharlotte Armstrong

- 1970 - A woman hides a young man who she believes is innocent - even though others say he is an insane killer!
$3.00

That Dark Inn
by Sarah Nichols

- 1976 - A girl inherits a fortune from a woman she barely knew.
$6.00


Moonblood
by Parley J. Cooper

- 1975 - A pregnant widow goes to live with her husband's aunt at a mysterious Chateau where the other guests seem mentally unbalanced.
$4.00


Tarn House
by Rose Brock

- 1971 - A young woman inherits a house -- and a legacy of hate!
$6.00


The Ice Forest
by Virginia Coffman

- 1975 - A young woman travels to France from England in 1815 to live as a companion for a wealthy woman's niece...only to find herself up against evil in the forest that surrounded them.
$4.00


The Ledge
by Gertrude Schweitzer

- 1973 - A young woman takes a job for a senator at the home where his wife killed herself.
$3.00


Silverhill
by Phyllis A. Whitney

- 1967 - A young woman comes to live in her mother's family home - and must discover the horrifying truth about it!
$3.00


You'll Like My Mother
by Naomi A. Hintze

- 1969 - A pregnant widow travels to meet her mysterious mother-in-law. But finds she has a lot to fear!
$3.00


Monk's Retreat
by Susannah Curtis

- 1976 - A young woman is exiled for not wanting to marry an aging earl.
$5.00


The Blackwood Cult
by T. A. Waters
 
- 1968 - A bizarre and ancient evil was blotting out a young woman's sanity and life - could she stay and fight it, in her own home town?
$2.75


Daughter of Despair
by Richard Hubbard

- 1972 - A young woman thinks she left her terror-ridden past behind when she flees the family mansion - only to have to return!
$3.00


Mansion of Mystery
by Virginia Kester Smiley

-1973 - A young woman arrives at a foreboding Victorian mansion to be a governess to a strange, emotional child.
$3.00


Amber Palace
by Josephine Freytag
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1980 - A young woman becomes governess to a wealthy 12 year old girl to the dismay of her father's flamboyant wife.
$4.00


Green Darkness
by Anya Seton

- 1974 - A young married couple find that they lived before...as doomed lovers in 16th centrury England!
$3.00


The Vampyre of Moura
by Virginia Coffman

- 1970 - A young widow takes as a housekeeper for an academy for girls, not realizing it is a place where evil lurks!
$3.00


Curse of the Island Pool
by Virginia Coffman

- 1975 - A young woman becomes heiress to a fabulous plantation on an exotic island.
$4.00


Karamour
by Ariadne Pritchett

- 1968 - Saved from the angry sea, she became the innocent prey of a danger even more terrifying than the horror she had just escaped.
$2.00


Stranger at Pembroke
by Anne Eliot

- 1972 - A young woman inherits a Plantation estate, only to find herself up against the hatred of its caretakers.
$3.00


Black Amber
by Phyllis A. Whitney

- 1964 - A young woman arrives in Istanbul to piece together the circumstances of a friend's mysterious death.
$2.50

 


Heir To Falconhurst
by Lance Horner

- 1968 - A sweeping, searing novel of the post-Civil War South. A man is descended from slaves on one side, and from aristocracy on the other.
$3.00


The Chaperone
by Ethel Gordon
 
- 1974 - An art teacher is paid to chaperone a student during her travels to France.
$2.50


The Listening Silence
by Helen Lillie

- 1975 - A divorcee returns home to Scotland after the death of her sister as the sole heir to a mansion.
$3.00


Mistress of the Moor
by Abigail Clements

- 1974 - A young woman returns to the family home at the request of her uncle...only to find it's not the place it once was.
$3.00


Color-Blind
by Catherine Cookson

- 1977 - A young woman's beau claims not to care about her mixed-race heritage.
$4.00


Rooney
by Catherine Cookson

- 1976 - A bachelor has an aching emptiness only a certain woman could fill.
$3.00

The Invitation
by Catherine Cookson

- 1974 - A young woman is enthralled with her successful husband - only to find out he hides a shameful secret.
$3.00

Hannah Massey
by Catherine Cookson

- 1973 - A young woman is caught between the man she desired and the mother he would destroy.
$3.00

The Garment
by Catherine Cookson

- 1974 - A married woman risks scandal and shame to bear her lover's child.
$3.00

The Fifteen Streets
by Catherine Cookson

- 1973 - A woman and her children try to transcend the poverty into which they had been born.
$3.00

The Glass Virgin
by Catherine Cookson

- 1981 - A young woman learns the secret of her parentage and leaves her upper crust lifestyle to seek out her real mother.
$2.00


The House on Hay Hill
by Dorothy Eden

- 1976 - A young woman inherits a mansion in London.
$2.50


Window on the Square
by Phyllis A. Whitney
 
- 1962 - A young boy confesses to a murder...and a house of secrets must be revealed.
$2.50

 


The Last Score
by Ellery Queen
- 1964 - A travel agent is hired to chaperone a wild young girl on a trip to Mexico - and she promptly disappears from their hotel room.

$4.00

 


The Golden Unicorn
by Phyllis A. Whitney

- 1976 - A woman who was adopted as a child must come face to face with the violent intrigues of the past - and the murderer her real monther had not escaped!
$2.50


Hunt With the Hounds
by Mignon G. Eberhart
- 1950 - A woman becomes involved with a man whose wife has been mysteriously murdered.
$4.00


The Contract
by Henry Carlisle
- 1968 - A suspenseful story about 3 students who made a pact that they would one day kill each others' rich aunts.
$2.50


The Fire and the Gold
by Phyllis A. Whitney

- 1974 - A young woman must choose between two loves during the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
$2.00

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