Dorothy Eden

New York Times—bestselling author Dorothy Eden brings World War I—era England to vibrant life in this romantic saga in which destiny turns a lady's maid into a lady It is spring of 1915. Spoiled twenty-one-year-old Clemency Jervis and her Fifth Avenue entourage board the Lusitania, bound for England, where Clemency is to marry the dashing Lord Hugo Hazzard of Loburn. A few miles off the Irish coast, the ship is torpedoed by the Germans. One of...

A woman vanishes into thin air and nothing is as it seems in bestselling author Dorothy Eden's novel of romantic suspense and international intrigue set in Sweden A situation has developed . . . I've made a decision . . . There is simply no other way. Wilhelmina. The envelope is postmarked from Stockholm. But it's the signature on the note inside that strikes fear into the heart of novelist Grace Asherton. As teenagers, she and her cousin Willa Bedford...

This classic romantic novel about a woman and a land that can never be tamed is Dorothy Eden at her spellbinding best. Poor, orphaned Briar Johnson serves as maid to two gently reared young women on their voyage from London to New Zealand, a land their aunt in Wellington has assured them is teeming with potential husbands. Desperate for a home of her own, Briar disguises herself in one of her mistress's gowns and slips into the governor's masked ball,...

This classic Gothic romance, hailed by the Boston Globe as "a gem of its species," tells the spine-tingling story of a young woman caught up in an English manor's shadowed, violent past-and confronted by the very real dangers that lie within   Fanny Davenport has lived at Darkwater ever since she was brought there as a young orphan. She both loves and detests the forbidding English estate on the moors, haunted by the death of its long-ago mistress....

Dorothy Eden's masterwork of Gothic romance presents the story of a governess who falls dangerously in love with the mysterious heir to a manor house It's a precarious charade with the highest stakes imaginable. Sarah Mildmay's entire future rests on exposing the current lord of Mallow as the great pretender he is. Blane Mallow, presumed dead after years at sea, has suddenly returned to claim his title-and the magnificent English estate that rightfully...

From one of the world's classic authors of romantic suspense comes an edge-of-your-seat story about a young wife and mother who begins to question her sanity in the wake of mysterious happenings On a warm, dreamlike mid-July day, Ella Simpson and her six-year-old daughter, Kitty, come upon an abandoned house. They hear a terrified scream from inside . . . and an owl flies out. That night, Ella can't sleep. Has her mind been playing tricks on her ever...

Romantic suspense meets Hitchcockian storytelling in New York Times–bestselling author Dorothy Eden's nail-biter of a novel about a little girl who vanishes on a train The job is simple: to escort seven-year-old Francesca from Rome to England. But it quickly becomes a nightmare for Kate Tempest when Francesca vanishes aboard the Paris Express. Not a single one of Kate's fellow passengers admits to seeing the girl. In fact, nobody remembers her getting...

New York Times–bestselling author Dorothy Eden returns to her roots in this riveting romantic saga about an English family that carves out a new life in the primitive wilds of New Zealand . . . and the woman who uncovers their dark secret  For Kate O'Connor, desperate to escape her tragic past in England, the opportunity to immigrate to New Zealand with Sir John Devenish and his wife and daughter is a chance to start over. Exhilarated by this wild,...

Hailed by Mary Stewart as "a splendid book," Dorothy Eden's acclaimed biographical novel is both an account of the illicit love affair that scandalized Victorian England and the gripping account of the rise and fall of one of Ireland's greatest political leaders Katharine O'Shea is an unhappily married young mother of three when she meets Charles Stewart Parnell, "the uncrowned king of Ireland." They couldn't be more different. Kitty is from an aristocratic...

Matilda Duncastle determines to raise sons in the tradition of her forebears - as heroic men of military might and valor.