Search Results: Gothic Romance from KALAMOS BOOKS

Toronto: Pocket Books., 1975 Book. Very Good +. Pbk.. 2nd Canadian Reprint. Family tensions amd romantic suspense set in Cornwall. Aulis had been reluctant to recuperate in Cornwall but she soon found herself enchanted by the dreamy seascape and magnetically drawn to Charles Foley, although he had only a year to live. But uneasiness soon gnawed at Aulis' peace of mind. Eleanor, Charles' sister, hated her. Aulis worried about the strange control that Eleanor, a doctor, exercised over their lives. And as she learned more, her fears grew. What tragedies from the doctor's past had turned that beautiful woman into a ruthless psychopath, who used her profession not to heal but to murder? 247p. Clean crisp copy..

London: Coronet, 1975 Book. Good>Very Good. Pbk. 1st Pbk Edition. The ancient tower-home of the aristocratic Darsham family has brought fame to the little English village of Senwich, despite strange rumours Kate Quantrill, the beautiful nineteen-year-old daughter of a sea captain, gets her chance to discover how many of them are true. For when Oliver Darsham, the fascinating and forbidding lord of the tower, hires Kate as a companion for his young daughter, Kate finds herself involved not only with the child but with the master.Kate has to discover the secret of the tower. For it is a secret that affects them all. Vintage Gothis. Slight wear to paper covers.

New York: Ace, 1961 Book. Very Good +. Pbk. Five years before, while touring Italy, Meg stumbled on an ancient villa near Florence. Curiosity had prompted her to accept an invitation to tea from the two inhabitant-the beautiful, lonely Angelica and her grandmother.Five years before, while touring Italy, Meg stumbled on an ancient villa near Florence. Curiosity had prompted her to accept an invitation to tea from the two inhabitants -the beautiful, lonely Angelica and her grandmother. Now, that same curiosity drove Meg to see Angelica once more. Her search led her to an old house in a seemingly peaceful hamlet--a house where the evil and decay lay hidden behind its graceful facade--a house where violence and sudden death were not strangers..

New York: Dodd Mead & Co, 1976 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st US Ed... 'Susan had been infatuated with everything Scottish for as long as she could remember. When she arrived in Scotland to work on an archaeological dig, she thought it was a dream come true. But now the dream was rapidly becoming a nightmare.She had no idea why a sinister soap box orator slipped her a cryptic message. Or why he was chasing her through the streets of Edinburgh. So when Jamie Erskine, a young Scottish laird came to her rescue, she was very grateful.Before they could say Mary Queen of Scots, Susan and Jamie were being pursued by the police who wanted them for murder. And by someone who was intent on murdering them.....

New York.: Doubleday & Co, 1970 Book. Fine. Hardcover in Plastic Case. BCE. To the outside world the Drapers seemed to be a perfectly normal small-town family. But they were not. Not at all. Especially one of them! ... A macabre tale of vengeance ... of love, hate, and silent terror. Once again Norah Lofts proves herself a mistress of suspense as she weave the chilling story to its suspenseful climax..

New York: Dell, 2003 Book. Fine. Pbk. 1st Pbk Edition. "Grown to womanhood on the lush Greek island of Corfu, Callista Melbourne reluctantly sails to England to honor part of her father's dying wish, but is also determined to defy his final request and escape the dreaded fate of an arranged marriage. Before she reaches the shores of England a fierce storm blows her from the deck of the ship and into the sea to face seemingly certain death. Yet here she was now, ensconced in a bedroom in Stanton Abbey, staring into the eyes of a mesmerizing stranger - without the slightest idea of where he'd come from... Or of who she was.".

New York: Ace, 1962 Book. Very Good. Pbk. The job of tracing the ancestral tree of the mystery-shrouded O'Riordan family at first fascinates beautiful, young Cathleen Lamb. But the past, she soon discovers, is entangled with the present in a delicate but deadly web of violence and suspicion. Isolated in a gloomy castle on the edge of a moor, Cathleen finds that the secrets she uncovers have drawn her into a swirling vortex of smoldering hates and strange relationships that threaten her very existence. Yet despite the malice surrounding her, she is helplessly drawn to the brooding, darkly passionate man who is plotting to control the family-- a man who will stop at nothing if Cathleen, or anyone, stands in his way..