Les belles promesses

Pierre Lemaitre

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Perils in Lace and Hard Iron

Everyone knows there's no such thing as ghosts. Someone needs to tell the ghosts.

The Dark Lord ~ A Regency Gothic Mystery

Something strange is driving servants from Feldstone Grange. Elizabeth Fortescue is too desperate to reject the offer of housekeeper, and Baron Harcourt is desperate to fill the position.

On her first night at the Grange, Elizabeth encounters two ghosts. One is the well-known Silent Lady. The other ghost persists in haunting her, enticing her to follow it.

Is it a real ghost? Is a fellow servant attempting to terrify her? Or does someone have a wicked reason to haunt the new housekeeper?

Elizabeth doesn't know the answer—but she has more incentive to stay than leave.

Will she remain at the Grange? Or will the second ghost's increasing hauntings drive her away?

Or lead her into death?

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The Bride in Ghostly White ~ A Victorian Gothic Mystery

When Enid's beloved cousin died while riding, she didn't believe the simple tragic words of an accident.

Seeking the truth, she disguises herself as a lady's companion to enter the household at Derlaston Manor.

Rumors do not just tell of trouble after the wedding of her cousin to the eighth Baron of Derlaston. Enid also learns of the baron's need for money, of his late father's unlucky death while riding, and of a mysterious mistress at the estate when her cousin died.

A black-haired vagabond lurks in a nearby woodland.

And a ghost haunts the manor, a ghost who looks very like Enid's cousin.

Did the baron commit murder? Or one of his family? Or that mysterious vagabond?

The ghost knows … but the ghost isn't telling.

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Miss Beale Writes ~ A Touch of Gothic, a Touch of Romance, a Touch of Murder

Multi-published writer M.A. Lee's love of historical mysteries began before her teen-aged years. Regency novels motivated her own twelve-book mystery series Hearts in Hazard. Authors like Mary Stewart inspired her Into Death series. Her enjoyment of Vintage Gothic by Victoria Holt and Dorothy Eden gave ideas for the Miss Beale Writes series.

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