Sara Hylton
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"At the beautiful manor-house where she has lived for many years, Charlotte Chayter prepares for her eightieth birthday party, an occasion that sees her family and friends gather to celebrate her long and eventful life. However, Charlotte dreads the day, aware that beneath the veneer of 1950s middle-class pretensions and respectability, there are secrets and divisions that could tear her family apart" --Publisher description.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
At the turn of the century Andrew Martindale, a young British earl, seduces Marie Claire Moreau, 15, a student in a convent school in France, then returns to Britain leaving her pregnant. Marie Claire rises to become the mayor of Dijon and seeks her revenge on Martindale.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
While working at the Carslake estate, Katie realizes she has fallen in love with her young master, Jeffrey Carslake. Unable to reconcile her feelings with her desire to be loved as an equal, Katie marries an Irishman with a similar background.
11) Melissa
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Two English girls brought together by World War II meet again in Italy as adults. Ginny is married to a psychiatrist, Melissa is an opera singer. Melissa steals Ginny's husband, then dumps him and offers to be friends. Ginny accepts, only to be hurt again.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
The bittersweet story of forbidden love, set in Egypt in the 1920s. The protagonist is Laura Levinson-Gore, a high class English beauty sent to Egypt to meet her future husband. On the boat she makes the acquaintance of an Egyptian prince and tragedy follows, she pregnant, he assassinated. By the author of The Last Reunion.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
"For Lisa Hamilton, her loving husband, gifted children, and happy Dorset home seem a lifetime away from the pain and insecurity that filled her childhood. Then the death of her grandmother pulls an unwilling Lisa back to the Lancashire manor where the domineering matriarch once ruled her family with an iron hand, and back to a history of scandal. Amidst the familiar wild beauty of Cumbria, Lisa finds herself taken back to her turbulent childhood...