Victoria Holt - Free Library Land Online - Travel https://travel.library.land/ ru Victoria Holt - Free Library Land Online - Travel DataLife Engine The Landower Legacy https://travel.library.land/victoria-holt/56696-the_landower_legacy.html https://travel.library.land/victoria-holt/56696-the_landower_legacy.html The Landower Legacy
Green-eyed Caroline Tressidor has everything: beauty, a title, an inheritance -- and a secret that can destroy it all. Determined to discover the truth, Caroline begins a search that will take her from London to the wild moors of Cornwall . . . and into the arms of the mysterious Paul Landower, a man whose past may include a legacy of murder . . .]]> Mon, 29 Oct 1984 18:02:53 +0300 On the Night of the Seventh Moon https://travel.library.land/victoria-holt/56695-on_the_night_of_the_seventh_moon.html https://travel.library.land/victoria-holt/56695-on_the_night_of_the_seventh_moon.html On the Night of the Seventh Moon
For generations, Victoria Holt has dazzled and entertained millions of readers with her spine-tingling novels of romantic suspense. On the Night of the Seventh Moon is one of her most evocative, magical, and chilling. Come take a journey into a dark and shadowy forest where nothing is as it seems.… On the night of the seventh moon, according to ancient Black Forest legend, Loke, the god of mischief, is abroad in the world. It is a night for singing and dancing. And it is a night for love. Helena Trant was enchanted by everything she found in the Black Forest—its people, its mysterious castles, its legends and lore. Especially its legends of love. Until the day she started to live one of them and the enchantment turned suddenly into a terrifying nightmare….]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 The Secret Woman https://travel.library.land/victoria-holt/56697-the_secret_woman.html https://travel.library.land/victoria-holt/56697-the_secret_woman.html The Secret Woman
To all appearances, Anna Brett was a quiet, capable young woman whose only ambition was to carry on the profitable antiques business bequeathed her by a spinster aunt. And so she was--until the memory of a cherished moment with a blue-eyed stranger suddenly returned to haunt her with savage intensity. It was then Anna discovered the secret woman who waited within her-- impetuous, daring...and dangerous.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 Lord of the Far Island https://travel.library.land/victoria-holt/590245-lord_of_the_far_island.html https://travel.library.land/victoria-holt/590245-lord_of_the_far_island.html Lord of the Far Island

The past is never far behind.…

Ellen Kellaway, orphaned at age five, was raised by wealthy cousins, but was never allowed to forget that her every advantage was owed to the charity of others.  However, when the son of a powerful London family asks for her hand in marriage, her world is opened up to untold wealth and social position. She never imagined that such an unlikely dream would come true.

Despite these wonderful new developments in her life, Ellen continues to be wracked b the bad dreams that have haunted her since childhood.  What is the meaning of the lifelong nightmare—the image of an unfamiliar room, a door opening and behind it a dreadful presence? Perhaps it is a message urging her to uncover the secrets of her long-lost family—the secrets of the ancient home of the Kellaways on the Far Island, off the wild coast of Cornwall.

]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 19:21:52 +0300 The Pride of the Peacock https://travel.library.land/victoria-holt/56692-the_pride_of_the_peacock.html https://travel.library.land/victoria-holt/56692-the_pride_of_the_peacock.html The Pride of the Peacock
Victoria Holt demonstrates her mastery once again in her most exciting novel set in turn-of-the-century England where a young woman grows up in the shadow of the great estate - and privileged way of life - that was once her family's birthright. But a unique inheritance compels Jessica Clavering to marry the owner of a fabled opal mine and leads her to faraway Australia. There she will discover the mysteries - and evil - surrounding the greatest opal ever found. There she must confront the danger that lust for the stone has aroused even in her own husband - and there she must find love.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 The Road to Paradise Island https://travel.library.land/victoria-holt/56693-the_road_to_paradise_island.html https://travel.library.land/victoria-holt/56693-the_road_to_paradise_island.html The Road to Paradise Island
Annalice Mallory, the sheltered daughter of a family of map makers, discovers the cryptic diary of her long-dead ancestor that includes a map of a mysterious far-of island. Philip, Annalice's brother, sets sail for the island, lured by the promise of incomparable riches to be found. But when he doesn't return, Annalice sets out to find him -- and the secrets of the diary -- in a desperate journey that leads her through the worlds' most exciting outposts . . . and finally to the tropical islands of the South Seas, where she encounters heart-stopping peril, but also the promise of love.]]> Tue, 29 Oct 1985 18:02:52 +0300 The Shivering Sands https://travel.library.land/victoria-holt/56691-the_shivering_sands.html https://travel.library.land/victoria-holt/56691-the_shivering_sands.html The Shivering Sands
The new novel by the modern mistress of romantic suspense is set on the coast of Kent, at a great estate overlooking the infamous "shivering sands" - quicksands that have swallowed entire ships unfortunate enough to sail into them. Caroline Verlaine, a young widow, comes to work at the estate hoping to discover the cause of the mysterious disappearance of her sister, who had been studying the nearby Roman ruins. Caroline found her employers a strange family, haunted by tragedies of the past, scarred by distrust. Yet she found herself irresistibly attracted to them - especially to the family's dark, moody young scion. But not until she had retraced her sister's fatal last steps could she answer the crucial questions about the family's past - and her own future.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 Mistress of Mellyn https://travel.library.land/victoria-holt/56688-mistress_of_mellyn.html https://travel.library.land/victoria-holt/56688-mistress_of_mellyn.html Mistress of Mellyn
Mount Mellyn stood as proud and magnificent as she had envisioned...But what about its master--Connan TreMellyn? Was Martha Leigh's new employer as romantic as his name sounded? As she approached the sprawling mansion towering above the cliffs of Cornwall, an odd chill of apprehension overcame her. TreMellyn's young daugher, Alvean, proved as spoiled and difficult as the three governesses before Martha had discovered. But it was the girl's father whose cool, arrogant demeanor unleashed unfamiliar sensations and turmoil--even as whispers of past tragedy and present danger begin to insinuate themselves into Martha's life. Powerless against her growing desire for the enigmatic Connan, she is drawn deeper into family secrets--as passion overpowers reason, sending her head and heart spinning. But though evil lurks in the shadows, so does love--and the freedom to find a golden promise forever...]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 Kirkland Revels https://travel.library.land/victoria-holt/56689-kirkland_revels.html https://travel.library.land/victoria-holt/56689-kirkland_revels.html Kirkland Revels
Kirkland Revels loomed high above the wild and eerie Yorkshire moors like a brooding stone fortress. To some there was an atmosphere of evil about the place, but to innocent young bride Catherine Rockwell, the mansion seemed magnificently romantic. She did not know then of the terrible secrets imprisoned behind its massive walls. Or that at the moment she had entered her new home, she had crossed the threshold of terror . . .]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 Bride of Pendorric https://travel.library.land/victoria-holt/56690-bride_of_pendorric.html https://travel.library.land/victoria-holt/56690-bride_of_pendorric.html Bride of Pendorric
Favel Farrington meets Roc Pendorric on the idyllic Mediterranean island of Capri, where she was raised and lives with her father. Roc sweeps her off her feet, taking her from her home by an emerald sea to the ancient family home of the Pendorrics, in Cornwall. His sister and her family await them with open arms, welcoming young Favel. She is the much anticipated Bride of Pendorric, a name that amuses and flatters her. The castle is beautiful in its way, but the atmosphere is foreboding. Roc’s twin nieces begin watching her carefully; even the stones in the courtyard seem to have eyes. On the walls hang portraits of two other Brides of Pendorric—one of them Roc’s mother—who died both young and tragically. Favel’s fear increases as Roc seems to be growing more and more distant. Has her courtship and marriage been just a deception? Soon Favel can no longer dismiss as accidents the strange things happening to her. Someone is trying to kill her and she must confront the very real dangers that surround her.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 The Time of the Hunter's Moon https://travel.library.land/victoria-holt/56694-the_time_of_the_hunters_moon.html https://travel.library.land/victoria-holt/56694-the_time_of_the_hunters_moon.html The Time of the Hunter's Moon
Cordelia Grant wonders if she is dreaming after she sees a handsome stranger in the forest at the time of the hunter's moon, when legends say a girl will see her future husband. Haunted by the memory of this mystery man, Cordelia begins a new life as schoolmistress at a girl's academy and finds herself pursued by Jason Verringer, a dashing land baron with a scandalous reputation: It is rumored that Jason murdered his wife and mistress. But he has invaded her thoughts and is competing with the memory of the handsome stranger. Now Cordelia's destiny depends on finding out the truth about two very different men . . . ]]> Sat, 29 Oct 1983 18:02:52 +0300 The Spring of the Tiger https://travel.library.land/victoria-holt/509415-the_spring_of_the_tiger.html https://travel.library.land/victoria-holt/509415-the_spring_of_the_tiger.html The Spring of the Tiger
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Annalice Mallory, the sheltered daughter of a family of map makers, discovers the cryptic diary of her long-dead ancestor that includes a map of a mysterious far-of island. Philip, Annalice's brother, sets sail for the island, lured by the promise of incomparable riches to be found. But when he doesn't return, Annalice sets out to find him -- and the secrets of the diary -- in a desperate journey that leads her through the worlds' most exciting outposts . . . and finally to the tropical islands of the South Seas, where she encounters heart-stopping peril, but also the promise of love.

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Annalice Mallory, the sheltered daughter of a family of map makers, discovers the cryptic diary of her long-dead ancestor that includes a map of a mysterious far-of island. Philip, Annalice's brother, sets sail for the island, lured by the promise of incomparable riches to be found. But when he doesn't return, Annalice sets out to find him -- and the secrets of the diary -- in a desperate journey that leads her through the worlds' most exciting outposts . . . and finally to the tropical islands of the South Seas, where she encounters heart-stopping peril, but also the promise of love.
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