Gothic English Mystery

Irresistibly drawn to mysteries, if only to debunk them, reporter Lionel Page exposes supernatural frauds, swindlers, and charlatans. His latest case is an obsession—at least for an ancient and wealthy heiress: verify the authenticity of a lost Edgar Allan Poe manuscript circulating through New York City’s literary underworld. But the shrewd Regina Dunkle offers more than money. It’s a pact. Fulfill her request, and Lionel’s own notorious buried past, one he’s been running from since he was a child, will remain hidden.

For more than two centuries, Winterbourne Hall has stood atop a bluff overseeing the English countryside of Cornwall and the sea beyond. In 1947, Londoner Alice Miller accepts a post as governess at Winterbourne, looking after Captain Jonathan de Grey’s twin children. Falling under the de Greys’ spell, Alice believes the family will heal her own past sorrows. But then, the twins’ adoration becomes deceitful and taunting. Their father, ever distant, turns spiteful and cruel. The manor itself seems to lash out. Alice finds her surroundings subtly altered, her air slightly chilled.

On a sunny August morning in 1935, 13-year-old Sophia Gray finds her friend Rosemary wandering in the woods. Rosemary’s yellow dress is tattered and her eyes are vacant and glassy. She beckons to Sophia, desperate to show her something. In an abandoned cabin, beneath a tattered blanket, Sophia discovers Rosemary’s body. It was not Rosemary who led her there, but Rosemary’s ghost. Twenty years later, Sophia finds herself trapped in the sprawling Northern Michigan Asylum for the Insane, in the hands of a malevolent doctor who preys on patients who exhibit paranormal abilities.

A dark sorcerer. His widowed apprentice. A Victorian gothic romance for all time. In the midnight fog of Victorian London, the young widow Elizabeth Buckingham was destitute and alone, sustained only by her vow of revenge against whoever—or whatever—caused her Egyptologist husband’s uncanny demise. Everything changes when a mysterious encounter at a fortuneteller shop leads Elizabeth to join the Esoteric Order of Magisophists, a secret society and college of magic.

The car crash that killed Heaven and Logan left Annie Casteel Stonewall orphaned and crippled. Whisked off to Farthinggale Manor by the possessive Tony Tatterton, Annie pines for her lost family, but especially for Luke, her half-brother. Friend of her childhood, her fantasy prince, her loving confidante...without the warm glow of Luke's love, she is lost in the shadows of despair. When Annie discovers Troy's cottage hidden in Farthinggale's woods, the mystery of her past deepens. Even as she yearns to see Luke again, her hopes and dreams are darkened by the sinister Casteel spell.

I moved to New Orleans to escape a dark past. I had never really believed in the supernatural or other beings I didn’t truly understand, but then the unthinkable happened… After being taken hostage by two wolves, I don’t know how I will make it out of this situation alive. My only flicker of hope appears when they finally take me to their alpha. He wants me as much as I want him, but when my past is discovered, I don’t know if he’ll ever let me go. Content Warning: Explicit love scenes and lots of sexy shifters. Intended for 18+ audiences.

The Locksby Harper Stanwick, Sr. is a mystery and psychological fiction set in the declining river town of Hatch during the late 19th century. The Locks unfolds in the shadowy and forlorn town of Hatch, a place where darkness pervades both the streets and the lives of its weary inhabitants. When the enigmatic Alvin Stark arrives and takes residence in the eerie mansion known as The Locks, he brings with him an air of mystery that stirs the stagnant waters of Hatch. Set against the backdrop of Hatch's economic decline and overshadowed by the thriving Ben's City downstream Stark's arrival ...

As the most dazzling debutante of 1811, beautiful and reckless Olivia scandalised society when she eloped with notorious rake, Lucien, Lord Farquhar. Five years later, she's paid the highest price for her impetuosity. Lucien is dead, branding his wife a whore and unfit mother, and willing the care of their child to a relative. Now Olivia is about to orchestrate a grand charade to reclaim everything she has lost. After years abroad, fighting for king and country, Max Atherton has returned to the estate he's inherited and to take responsibility for his cousin's child. When he discovers a ...

Mayfair, 1878 The scandal-soaked historical mystery that will haunt your dreams... A murdered courtesan. A clairvoyant's deadly masquerade. And a crusading editor whose pursuit of truth could destroy them both. When one of Madame Chambon's most exquisite "Fallen Angels" is discovered butchered in her silk-draped boudoir, Lily, Lady Bradden, feels the noose tightening around her own throat. Hidden within the pleasure house's velvet shadows, she's been playing a perilous game—masquerading as a spirit medium to keep her secrets buried. Now, with blood staining Mayfair's pristine streets, she...

The year is 1901, and Nicky is attacked, then wakes on board the Ormen, a whaling ship embarked on what could be its last voyage. With land still weeks away, it’s just her, the freezing ocean, and the crew–and they’re all owed something only she can give them...

He kidnapped me and now I must unravel the mystery: is he the Ripper, or my Beast? He stole her away in the desolate wintry woods.A man with an insatiable thirst for revenge takes Violet to his isolated cabin in the woods—but not all is as it seems. There’s a serial killer on the loose, and in his supposed twisted plight to be her savior, he may well destroy the one person whose innocence he wishes to preserve and protect. She loses the very freedom she once took for granted and comes to know a beast of a man whose depth is much more than the cold kidnapper which he attempts to portray ...

Lilly Bly desperately wants to have a baby. She is struggling with infertility and bad spending habits when her husband, Jack, gets a new job that moves them from Chicago to a small town in Wisconsin. Impractical Lilly falls in love with a decrepit mansion well out of their price range—she is convinced that she will finally get pregnant and have a baby in this house—and Jack agrees to it. But when Lilly learns that her dream house was the site of a gruesome triple homicide/suicide in the 1950s, she begins to experience strange occurrences that soon lead her to believe the house is haunted.

A small fishing village in Ireland. A haunted castle with dark legends and deep secrets. Former lovers are irrevocably drawn to disaster. Return of the Gulls, the first novel of the trilogy that introduces paranormal sleuths, Stacey Christian and Peter Mansfield. In Return of the Gulls, Stacey Christian unexpectedly runs into her ex-boyfriend, Peter Mansfield, while touring Ireland. They join forces to help solve the puzzles surrounding Lady Katherine O'Flannery, Peter's formidable great-aunt. Finding herself implacably installed in Katherine's eerie castle, referred to by the locals as ...

In this enthralling vampire novel, V.C. Andrews returns to the story of a beautiful girl desperate to escape her secret family legacy - bred to be a lure for unwitting victims of her father's blood appetites. Determined to break free and embrace a life outside the shadows, Lorelei runs away from the only world she's ever known. In a quiet rooming house, she finds refuge among the tenants of elderly Mrs. Winston, and the beginnings of a new love with Liam, her landlady's handsome grandnephew. But Lorelei soon discovers that burying her past is not so easy.

One of the most popular storytellers of all time, V.C. Andrews (Flowers in the Attic, My Sweet Audrina) continues an astonishing saga of psychological suspense with this third book of the Landry Family series - soon to be a Lifetime movie! Driven from the ornate Dumas Mansion back to her beloved bayou, Ruby struggles to begin her life anew in this atmospheric and thrilling novel.

This omnibus brings together seven of H.E. Bulstrode’s ghost stories originally published between 2016 and 2018. These are: The Ghost of Scarside Beck A newly-wed Cumbrian vicar and his wife experience a night like none they could ever have foreseen. He may have answered his calling, but who, or what, is calling her? Old Crotchet The year is 1920, and it's Twelfth Night by the old reckoning. Festivities are about to commence at Hinton St Cuthbert Manor when something sinister stirs from its protracted dormancy, awakened, it would seem, by the arrival of two young guests. The old ways, ...

A gothic mystery book set in Ireland during the early 19th century. In the midst of poverty-stricken Ireland, in fall of 1816, Michael Smith abandons his studies at Trinity College to attend to a familial duty. His journey takes him to the isolated and eerie County Wicklow to care for his wealthy and reclusive uncle who lies on his deathbed, guarded within their dilapidated ancestral estate. Disturbing Revelations As he steps into his uncle’s haunting estate, Michael stumbles upon chilling secrets of his uncle's past. He encounters disconcerting memories and discovers the mysterious room ...

When Claire Ashford gets a job documenting the history of Gray Hollow Manor, a crumbling estate tucked deep in the mist-shrouded woods, she expects a fresh start and a chance to delve into the history of a stately home steeped in mystery. But the manor has secrets of its own. Shadows dance in darkened corridors, whispers drift through empty rooms, and the walls seem to breathe with life. As Claire explores the house’s haunted history, she uncovers stories of lost souls who have been tethered to the manor for centuries. Thomas Grayson, her boss, is a brooding enigma who knows more about ...

Rosemary Chivers is haunted by the choices she made as a teenager—and by those made for her by a controlling mother. Now, in the Cold War era of conformity and suspicion, Rosemary is a modern new teacher at a school for troubled girls, where she challenges the narrow curriculum meant to tame restless young minds. She also keeps a devastating secret. She knows one of the students is the child she gave up. But which one?

Ghost underestimated me. Judas likely didn’t think of me at all. Wolf pitied me. To them, I was a peculiar jokester, a shameless flirt, and a restless musician. Brothers and lovers often trivialized the gifts of their counterparts.