ONE HAUNTED EVENING

ONE HAUNTED EVENING

Author: Ava Stone

Publisher: Ava Stone Inc

Published: 2014-10-01

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1310140499

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Six friends head to the Lake District, after one of them inherits a haunted castle, with the purpose of hosting a Samhain masquerade party. Along the way three of them find true love in this Haunted Regency anthology.


A Haunted Bundle

A Haunted Bundle

Author: Ava Stone

Publisher: Ava Stone Inc

Published: 2016-10-11

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13:

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THE LADY VANISHES After inheriting a reputedly haunted medieval castle, the Marquess of Bradenham heads to Ravenglass with his friends to inspect the place and host a Samhain masquerade party. He gets a most welcome surprise when he meets a lovely girl in the castle’s gardens and the rest of his life suddenly has a purpose. * Callie Eilbeck has always avoided Marisdun Castle, there’s something about the place that has terrified her from even her youngest days. But after a chance encounter with the castle’s new owner and falling rather fast for handsome marquess, Callie vanishes without a trace just like the castle’s former mistress. Is one of Bradenham’s friends responsible for her disappearance? Or has the castle claimed another victim? And can the marquess find her before it’s too late and she’s lost forever? PRELUDE TO A HAUNTED EVENING On the precipice of their journey to Ravenglass (found in One More Haunted Evening), Lord Quentin Post and his sisters prepare to visit Marisdùn Castle for the Samhain Masquerade of 1816. However, each sibling is focused on his/her own individual hopes and dreams for the trip ahead, and a couple of secrets are kept here and there. THE LADY UNMASKED For the last year, visions of the disappearing angel Lord Quentin Post danced with and kissed at his brother’s Samhain masquerade have haunted his dreams and his plagued his waking thoughts. Convinced that hosting the masquerade once more is the only way to find the girl who got away and unmask her once and for all, Quent enlists the help of his sisters and friends alike. He has thought everything through down to the last detail, except…After returning to Ravenglass it’s another girl completely who invades his thoughts at every turn. *Miss Lila Southward fell quite in love with Lord Quentin the first moment she met him, and she’s loved him every moment since. She is overjoyed when he and returns to Ravenglass and Marisdùn Castle, however her heart is crushed when she realizes he’s searching for a mysterious angel he met the previous year, and not for her. Or is he? * And when an ancient evil is released inside the walls of the castle, nothing will ever be the same again.


A Scandalous Pursuit

A Scandalous Pursuit

Author: Ava Stone

Publisher: Ava Stone Inc

Published:

Total Pages: 354

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Even the most ruthless of rogues live by their own code of honor, and for Alexander Everett, the wicked Duke of Kelfield, his includes not seducing the ward of his oldest and dearest friend. However for a man who is accustomed to getting what he wants, the lure of the forbidden fruit is enough to drive him wild. When he finds himself under the same roof as the enchanting Olivia Danbury at a summer house party, he discovers the temptation of the lady is more than he can resist. Olivia, on the other hand, has the rest of her life all mapped out. When her fiancé returns from the Peninsular Wars, they’ll get married, settle down in the country, start a family, and live happily ever after. The sinfully sexy Duke of Kelfield was not in her plans. But when she stumbles headlong into a compromising position with the passionate duke, her carefully constructed life quickly begins to unravel. In no time, Olivia must choose between the life she’s always planned and everything she never knew she wanted.


All the Spells and Whistles

All the Spells and Whistles

Author: Ava Stone

Publisher: Ava Stone Inc

Published: 2023-10-03

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13:

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When Miss Poppy Elstone discovers she’s a witch, she doesn’t have the first clue how to use her magic or control her powers. She does know that she must keep her abilities a secret from the world or risk all kinds of danger. She now wakes every morning, having dreamt about a stranger at a crossroads until one night when the dream and the stranger in question become all too real. A shell of his former self, Captain Alec Galbraith returned from the Napoleonic battlefields, determined to make his own fortune and forge his own destiny in spite of his lost magic. When his path collides with Poppy’s one darkened night, she sparks something in his soul he thought was lost. Can Alec teach Poppy how to use her powers? Or will his dark past stand in the way?


Des Grieux: The Prelude to Teleny

Des Grieux: The Prelude to Teleny

Author: Anonymous

Publisher: Library of Alexandria

Published: 2020-09-28

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 1465613463

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On the morrow the young girl awoke as you and I have often done after a bewildering, restless, terror-haunted night, when we have been the prey of some persecuting nightmare. She was, as yet, half asleep, so she felt weary, sore, broken down, but nothing more. Her head was aching with a dull heavy pain, her body was languid, her mind bewildered, lost, but nothing more. She tossed about for some time between wakefulness and oblivion, unable to rouse herself, unable to fall asleep again, trying to collect her wandering senses. The first thing that made her feel uncomfortable was the light streaming into her room, whereupon she asked herself how it was that her shutters had been left open? Surely they were shut, or at least ajar, the evening before. In somnambulism—as in every-day life—one thought recalls another, one remembrance evokes another. Life is a chain of many links, like those Indian puzzle rings; by patient perseverance we can get them to fit into one another. It is like the game played by ten or twenty persons—where a phrase whispered from mouth to ear reaches the last hearer, entirely changed in its meaning as well as in its words. As she looked at the open window, the golden rays which poured in blinded her, and made her blink her eyes, and the casement seemed to her just then like the frame of the altar-piece, and in the iridiscent glittering light she saw the beautiful image of the saint which—for days, nay for months—had unconsciously, been haunting her, like St-George or St-Denis appeared to Jeanne d'Arc; and like all hysterical saints given to hallucinations, Sebastian now was visible to her as clearly as if he stood there in tangible flesh.


A Scandalous Past

A Scandalous Past

Author: Ava Stone

Publisher: Ava Stone Inc

Published: 2011-06-04

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13:

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A Regency Historical Novel - Book Four of the Scandalous Series... After years of abuse at the hands of her mother, Cordelia Avery knows the only way out is marriage to the perfect man. A man who will allow her all the freedom she has ever craved. And she has the perfect man picked out. The scandalous Marquess of Haversham might not be perfect to anyone else, but taking the man’s black reputation under consideration, Cordie believes she’ll enjoy all the freedom she’s always wished for in his disreputable arms. If only she could get her heart to go along with the plan and to stop leaping whenever Lord Adonis…er…the Earl of Clayworth is nearby. But the very proper earl is most assuredly the wrong sort for her purposes. Brendan Reese, the Earl of Clayworth, has no intention of ever marrying again. He’s still trying to clean up the mess his first wife left him, even years after her death. To all the world, Clayworth is the epitome of the perfect English gentleman, and he so wishes that image was the truth. But the truth, as it often can be, is ugly. After all, a perfect English gentleman would never have a traitor for a mother. And unless Clayworth can find the evidence his late wife hid, he could face the gallows himself. But a chance encounter with the reckless Cordelia Avery gives him the best lead he’s had in years to finally putting his family’s past to rest. Unfortunately, focusing on anything other than Miss Avery seems a nearly impossible task.


On the Way to the Castle

On the Way to the Castle

Author: Ava Stone

Publisher: Ava Stone Inc

Published: 2019-11-01

Total Pages: 141

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**Previously found in The Duke of Danby's Holiday Hijinx** Identical twins, Ladies Lily and Amelia Woodward may look the same, but they’re as different as night and day. Ever-dutiful Lily is resigned to whatever destiny their great-uncle the Duke of Danby has in store for her, while free-spirited Amelia is determined to fight His Grace every step of the way. With Christmas upon them, the Woodwards set out for Danby Castle and stumble across an overturned coach and a pair of handsome gentlemen in peril. Will this fateful encounter alter the future for both sisters and the likely plans the duke had in store for all of them?


A Scandalous Secret

A Scandalous Secret

Author: Ava Stone

Publisher: Ava Stone Inc

Published:

Total Pages: 64

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Chester Peyton, the Marquess of Astwick, has never forgotten his first love. Nor has he ever gotten over her. But now thirteen years later, time has come for him to finally settle down and do his duty as far as both his title and his dragon of a mother are concerned. Everything would be so much easier if Chet’s heart didn’t still belong to the enchanting Scot he gave it to once upon a time. After following her late-husband’s regiment from one end of the continent to the other, Lady Hannah Campbell returns to London a very different woman than the naïve lass she once was. With her two sons in tow, she now has to navigate the waters of the ton, which seem more foreign than the lands she has traversed the last dozen years. And all the while, she has to keep hidden the scandalous secret that made her flee England so very ago.


In The Stars

In The Stars

Author: Ava Stone

Publisher: Ava Stone Inc

Published:

Total Pages: 127

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Ever since a mysterious fortuneteller informed Miss Wilhelmina Throssell that she’d soon meet her true love - a one-eyed commander -Mina's thought of little else. She never imagined marriage was in the stars for her or that she had a true love out there somewhere. Anywhere. Lieutenant-Colonel Nathaniel Carrick, Viscount Healeyfield returned home from the battlefields with nothing but his honor, his excellent eye-sight, and a crumbling abbey to his name. As luck would have it however, his wealthy mentor has a daughter of marriageable age that he’d like to see wed before he dies. Almost instantly, Nathaniel is quite smitten with the girl. She’s lovely, enchanting and the most unique female of his acquaintance. Unfortunately, the girl in question is quite adamant that her one true love, whoever he may be, has but a single eye.