Raised on their uncle's country estate, the four orphaned Sutherland sisters formed a close friendship with the young Princess Victoria. Shortly before her coronation as queen, Victoria asks the sisters to serve her in matters requiring the utmost discretion. They are to become her secret servants. Sister Holly's affinity with horses leads the queen to enlist her help when a prized Thoroughbred colt, a gift from the Ashworth family, disappears.
Allison Chase Bücher
Allison Chase schreibt fesselnde Romane, die oft von ihrer lebenslangen Faszination für Geschichte geprägt sind. Ihre Geschichten sind von reichen Vergangenheiten durchdrungen und rufen die Atmosphäre alter Stätten hervor, die sie gerne erkundet. Mit ihren Werken entführt sie die Leser in andere Zeiten und Kulturen, wo romantische Handlungen mit historischen Kulissen verwoben sind. Ihr Stil ist darauf ausgelegt, die Leser vollständig eintauchen zu lassen und ihnen ein unvergessliches Leseerlebnis zu bieten.



Dark Obsession. A Novel of Blackheath Moor
- 359 Seiten
- 13 Lesestunden
Allison Chase sweeps readers away to a rugged, windswept landscape, where a haunted house holds the key to one man's tormented past...and one woman's restless yearning.They say that spirits haunt Blackheath Moor...They wed in haste—Nora Thorngoode, to save her ruined reputation, and Grayson Lowell, to rescue his estate from foreclosure for unpaid debts. Each resents the necessity to exchange vows that will bind them for all time, and yet from the first, passion flames between them...quickly engulfing them in a sensual obsession.But soon the lover that Nora married becomes a dark stranger to her—a man torn apart by guilt over his brother's mysterious death and driven half mad by ghostly specters who demand that Grayson expose the truth. Has Nora married a murderer whose wicked deeds blacken everything around them? Or, together, in the secret passageways of Blackheath Grange and along Cornwall's remote coastline, can Grayson and Nora discover what really happened that terrible night and, in setting free the troubled ghosts, free themselves as well?