The Devereaux Legacy
Kindle Edition
Seventh Street Books · Ebook · February 12, 2013
INTRODUCING A NEW LINE OF CAROLYN HART CLASSICS, each with a new introduction by the author!
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- Who it’s for
- A layered Gothic mystery where a family’s hidden past meets a ghostly omen.
- Genres
- Gothic Romance, Women Detectives, Ghost Stories
- Published
- Seventh Street Books, February 12, 2013
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INTRODUCING A NEW LINE OF CAROLYN HART CLASSICS, each with a new introduction by the author! Leah Devereaux is a dead woman. At least, that's what the folks now running the Devereaux plantation tell her: Leah has been presumed dead for nineteen years--since the day that both her parents died. Leah, very much alive, has returned to South Carolina to uncover the untold story of her parents' deaths.
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While some, like her cousin Merrick, welcome her, Cissy and John Edward tell her to stay away, tell her to stop meddling in secrets long kept. When a ghost known only as the Whispering Lady appears once again at the Devereaux plantation after years of absence, the locals know it's an omen of death. Merrick and Leah may be the next targets. . . .
Secrets and Shadows
A layered Gothic mystery where a family’s hidden past meets a ghostly omen.
Come here for
- A returned daughter probing her parents’ deaths
- A ghostly omen shadowing long-kept family secrets
Expect
- Suspense rooted in a return after nineteen years
- Danger gathering around an old family mystery
Where it sits
| Gothic Romance | 63% |
|---|---|
| Ghost Stories | 56% |
| Women Detectives | 45% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Ghost Stories
- Gothic Romance
- Romantic Suspense
- Authors
- Carolyn G. Hart
- Publisher
- Seventh Street Books
- Published
- February 12, 2013
- Format
- Ebook
- Reading lane
- Ghost Stories