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Five Complete Novels: The Shrouded Walls / The Dark Shore / The Waiting Sands / April's Grave / The Devil on Lammas Night
Five Complete Novels The Shrouded Walls / The Dark Shore / The Waiting Sands / April's Grave / The Devil on Lammas Night
Author: Susan Howatch
THE SHROUDED WALLS — When her parents die in a car accident, Marianne loses her home and all her worldly goods. She faces life as a governess, until she meets Axel Branson. A lonely house in the Kent Marshes is now her home. But distrust of her husband and fear of the house seem to roll in as steadily as the sea mist... — ...  more »

When millionaire Jon Turner returns to Britain to marry for a second time, he returns with several other intentions. First to make peace with his son, Justin. But also, to the dismay of his new wife Sarah, to return to the house he shared with his first wife, Sophia -- the house in which she died mysteriously ten years earlier. Was it an accident, as Jon claims, that befell Sophia that weekend in Cornwall? Sarah realizes too late that Jon has reunited everyone who was present that stormy night when she died. And in this nightmarish replay of the deadly events, Sarah has been given Sophia's role...

THE WAITING SANDS

From the moment that Rachel Lord joined the celebration at Roshven, she was enveloped in an aura of impending doom. The house seemed to have evil built into its very foundations, and yet it made a perfect setting for surly, darkly handsome Daniel Carey, to whom Rachel was strongly and unwillingly drawn. Unable to sleep, Rachel heard voices not meant for her ears, and with mounting horror realized that she had become a threat to the safety ofr someone in the strange, nightmare house -- someone who would stop at nothing to eliminate the threat. Was that someone Daniel Carey? Was it really concern for her safety that kept him by her side, or was he merely biding his time, waiting for a convenient moment to destroy her?

APRIL'S GRAVE

Three years after their marriage broke up, Neville Bennett and his American wife Karen decide to resume their life together. Their friends prophesy disaster when they arrange to take their second honeymoon on the same Highland croft in which their marriage had broken up before. A mystery surrounds April, Karen's beautiful young sister, who had been the cause of the break-up. But she had since vanished, was she dead, or had she been murdered by someone Karen loved?

THE DEVIL ON LAMMAS NIGHT

When Tristan Poole moved to a remote Welsh seaside village, what was he planning? Nicola Morrison suspects foul play, particularly when sudden illnesses, accidents, and death shatter the peace?
ISBN-13: 9780517362358
ISBN-10: 051736235X
Publication Date: 5/16/1984
Pages: 711
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Publisher: Avenel Books
Book Type: Hardcover
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Wow, it has been many years since I have read any of Susan Howatch's books and I forgot how morbid alot of her writing is. It is not that I didn't find the stories interesting, but the violence and morbidity was unreal.


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