Author: Victoria Holt
Publisher: Ivy Books
ISBN: 9780449211236
Category : Cornwall (England : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
According to the legend, six novices living in a Cornish convent strayed from their vows and were turned to stone. The seventh faced quite a different fate. Years later when the convent became the family mansion of the St. Larnston family, fate beckoned to another young virgin. Kerensa Carlee was only a cottage girl, but she possessed great ambition and greater beauty -- and she knew how to use them both. Working in the legend-haunted mansion as a lady's maid, Kerensa began her perilous journey into womanhood. She stirred old memories and mysteries, and brought to that quiet corner of Victorian Cornwall moonlight madness and an ancient vengeance . . . .
The Legend of the Seventh Virgin
Author: Victoria Holt
Publisher: Ivy Books
ISBN: 9780449211236
Category : Cornwall (England : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
According to the legend, six novices living in a Cornish convent strayed from their vows and were turned to stone. The seventh faced quite a different fate. Years later when the convent became the family mansion of the St. Larnston family, fate beckoned to another young virgin. Kerensa Carlee was only a cottage girl, but she possessed great ambition and greater beauty -- and she knew how to use them both. Working in the legend-haunted mansion as a lady's maid, Kerensa began her perilous journey into womanhood. She stirred old memories and mysteries, and brought to that quiet corner of Victorian Cornwall moonlight madness and an ancient vengeance . . . .
Publisher: Ivy Books
ISBN: 9780449211236
Category : Cornwall (England : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
According to the legend, six novices living in a Cornish convent strayed from their vows and were turned to stone. The seventh faced quite a different fate. Years later when the convent became the family mansion of the St. Larnston family, fate beckoned to another young virgin. Kerensa Carlee was only a cottage girl, but she possessed great ambition and greater beauty -- and she knew how to use them both. Working in the legend-haunted mansion as a lady's maid, Kerensa began her perilous journey into womanhood. She stirred old memories and mysteries, and brought to that quiet corner of Victorian Cornwall moonlight madness and an ancient vengeance . . . .
Legend of the Seventh Virgin
Author: Victoria Holt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780745133515
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780745133515
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The Legend of the Seventh Virgin /c[by] Victoria Holt
Author: Victoria Holt (pseud.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
On the Night of the Seventh Moon
Author: Victoria Holt
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 9781429944991
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
For generations, Victoria Holt has dazzled and entertained millions of readers with her spine-tingling novels of romantic suspense. On the Night of the Seventh Moon is one of her most evocative, magical, and chilling. Come take a journey into a dark and shadowy forest where nothing is as it seems.... On the night of the seventh moon, according to ancient Black Forest legend, Loke, the god of mischief, is abroad in the world. It is a night for singing and dancing. And it is a night for love. Helena Trant was enchanted by everything she found in the Black Forest—its people, its mysterious castles, its legends and lore. Especially its legends of love. Until the day she started to live one of them and the enchantment turned suddenly into a terrifying nightmare....
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 9781429944991
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
For generations, Victoria Holt has dazzled and entertained millions of readers with her spine-tingling novels of romantic suspense. On the Night of the Seventh Moon is one of her most evocative, magical, and chilling. Come take a journey into a dark and shadowy forest where nothing is as it seems.... On the night of the seventh moon, according to ancient Black Forest legend, Loke, the god of mischief, is abroad in the world. It is a night for singing and dancing. And it is a night for love. Helena Trant was enchanted by everything she found in the Black Forest—its people, its mysterious castles, its legends and lore. Especially its legends of love. Until the day she started to live one of them and the enchantment turned suddenly into a terrifying nightmare....
The Walled-Up Wife: A Casebook
Author: Alan Dundes
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299150730
Category : Ballads
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299150730
Category : Ballads
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Die siebente Jungfrau (The legend of the seventh virgin, dt.-) Roman
The Seventh Scroll
Author: Wilbur Smith
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 1466868228
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
For four thousand years, the lavish crypt of the Pharaoh Mamose has never been found-- until the beautiful Egyptologist Royan Al Simma finds a tantalizing clue to its location in the Seventh Scroll, a cryptic document written by the slave Taita. But the location of the crypt and its treasure is a secret others would kill to possess. Only one step ahead of assassins, Royan runs for her life and into the arms of the only man she can trust, Sir Nicholas Quenton-Harper-- a daring man who will stake his fortune and his life to join her hunt for the king's tomb. Together, they will embark on a breathtaking journey to the most exotic locale on earth, where the greatest mystery of ancient Egypt, a chilling danger, and an explosive passion are waiting. Steeped in ancient mystery, drama, and action, Wilbur Smith's The Seventh Scroll will pull you in for an adventure of a lifetime.
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 1466868228
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
For four thousand years, the lavish crypt of the Pharaoh Mamose has never been found-- until the beautiful Egyptologist Royan Al Simma finds a tantalizing clue to its location in the Seventh Scroll, a cryptic document written by the slave Taita. But the location of the crypt and its treasure is a secret others would kill to possess. Only one step ahead of assassins, Royan runs for her life and into the arms of the only man she can trust, Sir Nicholas Quenton-Harper-- a daring man who will stake his fortune and his life to join her hunt for the king's tomb. Together, they will embark on a breathtaking journey to the most exotic locale on earth, where the greatest mystery of ancient Egypt, a chilling danger, and an explosive passion are waiting. Steeped in ancient mystery, drama, and action, Wilbur Smith's The Seventh Scroll will pull you in for an adventure of a lifetime.
The Demon Lover
Author: Victoria Holt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780613095518
Category : Romantic suspense novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780613095518
Category : Romantic suspense novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Female Gothic Histories
Author: Diana Wallace
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 0708325750
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Female Gothic Histories: Gender, History and the Gothic is an innovative new study of the ways in which women writers have used Gothic historical fiction to symbolise and counter their exclusion from traditional historical narratives.
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 0708325750
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Female Gothic Histories: Gender, History and the Gothic is an innovative new study of the ways in which women writers have used Gothic historical fiction to symbolise and counter their exclusion from traditional historical narratives.
Gothic Novels of the Twentieth Century
Author: Elsa J. Radcliffe
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810811904
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Easy to use, competently indexed, and fun to explore, this bibliography is an irresistible antidote for all forms of gothic snobbery. Recommended for gothophiliacs, gothophobiacs, and readers with idle nights and empty weekends.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810811904
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Easy to use, competently indexed, and fun to explore, this bibliography is an irresistible antidote for all forms of gothic snobbery. Recommended for gothophiliacs, gothophobiacs, and readers with idle nights and empty weekends.