| When the
Sickle Moon Gleams by Joyce Back |
The Blood
Red Star by Joyce Back |
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| Arabella Schendell has experienced every parent’s nightmare.
Four years ago, her two-year-old daughter mysteriously vanished, and
the resulting chaos caused the breakup of her marriage. Leaving her
law career behind, Arabella moves from New York to a seaside village
in Connecticut. However, the serenity of the village is an illusion that is shattered by the murder of two teenagers and the subsequent kidnapping of a ten-year-old girl. Arabella is drawn into the pursuit of the killer. As she becomes more deeply involved in the mystery, she becomes aware that she is the central figure in the murderer’s dark dreams. To defeat her merciless adversary, Arabella must summon courage and strength that she did not know she possessed. |
Seventeen-year-old Hannah Winstead finds that her serene
existence in Pinley House near London is about to come to an
unwelcome end. Her guardians inform her that Lord Earling has
requested her hand in marriage, and they have consented. Hannah runs away, seeking work as a governess in London. Good fortune smiles on her when she is aided by handsome Captain Aaron Clarke. He takes her aboard his ship bound for the village of Mistral on the coast of New England and employs her as governess to his wards. But Hannah is haunted by questions about her past—the mysterious death of her parents and the disappearance of her governess. Finally, as the ugly truth about her past begins to emerge, Hannah finds herself trapped in a web of deceit from which there seems to be no escape. |