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Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
423 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Award-winning author Catherine Palmer presents the first novel in another HeartQuest series. Fiery Elizabeth Hayes is determined to preserve Chalmers House, the Victorian mansion next to her growing antiques business. But Zachary Chalmers, heir to the mansion, has very different plans. Together they learn that God has the best plans of all-if we will only surrender to him.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Physical Desc
379 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When her husband's unexpected death bestows his fortune on a male heir, Sylvia tries to marry her daughter off to a wealthy husband to maintain their lifestyle, but is stopped by her mother-in-law, who wants more for her granddaughter.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
pages cm.
Language
English
Description
During a family visit to a mansion his father has just inherited, Luke learns about a curse placed on the house--just in time, hopefully, to save his family from being imprisoned (or worse) inside the mansion forever.
5) Night music
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In this contemporary novel, widowed orchestral violinist Isabel Delancey finally finds true serenity and love only when she loses what she thought she needed most"--
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Blackwood mansion looms, surrounded by nightmare pines, atop the hill over the small town of Crooked Tree. Ben Bookman, bestselling novelist and heir to the Blackwood estate, spent a weekend at the ancestral home to finish writing his latest horror novel, The Scarecrow. Now, on the eve of the book's release, the terrible story within begins to unfold in real life"--
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
408 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Seven friends.
One last weekend.
A mansion half in ruins.
No room for lies.
Someone is going to confess.
Because there should have been eight. . . .
They met when they were teenagers. Now they’re adults, and time has been kind to some and unkind to others—none more so than to Bea, the one they lost nine long years ago.
They’ve gathered to reminisce at Bea’s family’s estate, a once-glorious mansion straight out of a gothic novel. Best...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After years in foster care, April gets to live in a mansion where she and four other children are caught up in a mystery related to a missing heir, a lost legacy, and the Phantom.
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
244 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Making the acquaintances of a young widow and her German grandfather, new arrivals in the Depression-era Hudson Valley, Robert Brewster and his sister, Lily, fear for their new friends' safety when a swastika is found painted on the widow's window.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2017
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
421 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The Whitaker family Connecticut mansion, Muses by the Sea, has always been a haven for artists, but things change. Leo, the matriarch, lives in the rambling mansion crammed with artwork and junk. Her sister-in-law Fae, is desperate to keep a secret she has been hiding for years. Jillian, a jet setting actress down on her luck, thinks selling The Muses will make life easier for Leo and Fae--by moving them into assisted living. Issy, Jillian's daughter,...
Author
Series
Hidden Springs mysteries volume Book 3
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hidden Springs Deputy Sheriff Michael Keen is called in to investigate a suspicious string of deaths at an empty old Victorian mansion, before more bodies can turn up.
Maggie Greene is trespassing in the old, empty Victorian mansion on a quiet street in Hidden Springs, to have private time in the magnificent tower room to write her stories. She hides when a realtor shows up, but there's someone else is in the house too. When Maggie finds the realtor's...
12) A willing murder
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sara Medlar is a household name in romance, with millions of books sold. But lately, retirement has been boring her and she's found herself back in her hometown of Lachlan, Florida, remodeling the grand old mansion she'd admired as a child. It's much too big for her alone, but she'd die before letting anyone in town know that. Then Sara's niece Kate is offered a job in Lachlan - a start in what could be a very successful career in real estate. She...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the author of the bestselling A Reliable Wife comes a dramatic, passionate tale of a glamorous Southern debutante who marries for money and ultimately suffers for love--the literary love-child of William Faulkner and Dominick Dunne. It begins with a house and ends in ashes... Diana Cooke was 'born with the century' and came of age just after World War I. The daughter of Virginia gentry, she knew early that her parents had only one asset, besides...
14) Ghost Roast
Author
Publisher
Versify, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
For as long as she can remember, Chelsea has tried everything she can think of to distance herself from her father's work as a "paranormal removal expert," a hard task when he's advertising proudly all over New Orleans! This year, she's all grown up and finally friends with the popular crowd at her fancy high school. Things are looking up--until a night on the town backfires spectacularly, landing her in hot water at home.
Her punishment? Working...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At seventeen, Lenora Hope / Hung her sister with a rope-- Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope's End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred."...
16) Whiskey beach
Author
Language
English
Description
After suffering through an intense year of public and police scrutiny after being wrongly implicated in his fiancé's murder, Boston lawyer Eli Landon takes sanctuary in a centuries-old family home and falls in love with resident housekeeper Abra Walsh, with whom he is entangled in an old, life-threatening mystery.
Author
Series
Robinswood story volume 3
Publisher
[Jean Grainger]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Three sisters, the three men that love them, and a house that could consume them all. Assuming their roles as the new Lord and Lady Kenefick and returning to Robinswood with the plan to drag it back from the brink of dereliction, is taking its toll on Kate and Sam. With a young family to raise, a very limited budget and only Kate's parents to help, the task seems insurmountable. Kate's eldest sister Eve and her husband Bartley have found happiness...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"With the Great War finally behind them, thousands of civilians and business moguls alike flock to South Florida with their sights set on making a fortune. When wealthy industrialist Robert Barnes and his wife, Anna, build Marbrisa, a glamorous estate on Biscayne Bay, they become the toast of the newly burgeoning society. Anna and Robert appear to have it all, but in a town like Miami, appearances can be deceiving, and one scandal can change everything....
Author
Series
Family upstairs volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter she's been waiting for her entire life. She rips it open with one driving thought: I am finally going to know who I am. She soon learns not only the identity of her birth parents, but also that she is the sole inheritor of their abandoned mansion on the banks of the Thames in London's fashionable Chelsea neighborhood, worth millions. Everything in Libby's...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
447 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A young widow restores a dilapidated mansion with the assistance of a charming, eccentric genius, only to find the house is full of dangerous secrets in this effervescent Gilded Age debut novel. It's 1875, and Alva Webster has perfected her stiff upper lip after three years of being pilloried in the presses of two continents over fleeing her abusive husband. Now his sudden death allows her to return to New York to make a fresh start, restoring Liefdehuis,...