Candlewood Books: 25 books

What should have been a refuge soon became a nightmare... Still mourning for her young husband, widowed Anne Wicklow arrived in Venice during the carnival preceding Lent to assume the duties of housekeeper at the palace of ailing Mrs. Elvira Huddle. Under Anne's gentle ministrations...

One by one the lost and lonely women came to Lucifer Cove, each searching for personal happiness…only to meet with disaster, as they encountered the handsome and sinister Marc Meridon. Now it was Maeva Wells’ turn. Because her niece: Jenniver, had been hurt in an accident and taken to the Cove,...

An evil presence is stalking the village of Maidenmoor. As Anne Wicklow seeks for answers, she uncovers the story of the Devil-Vicar, a man who was burned to death twenty years ago. His powers are apparently now reaching beyond the grave, as he brutally murders the villagers who were involved...

When young Anne Wicklow took a temporary post in the distant village of Upshed, high on the bog-ridden moors, she hoped to see again handsome, mysterious, cynical Marc Branshaw. But she soon learned that the superstitious villagers believed Marc to be the evil reincarnation of their infamous Devil...

It was Jean Benedict’s missionary zeal that had brought her to the Cove—that, and a message from a friend who had cried out to her in torment. But what was Lucy Schallert's plight? Here, at the coastal resort, a cure was offered for lost romances and early sorrows, a renewed chance to live as...

A TIMELESS EVIL WILL NOT REST UNTIL ANNE WICKLOW AND ALL SHE LOVES ARE DESTROYED. When Anne WickLow returns to Moura, the home she had shared with her late husband, it is as housekeeper for the mysterious Maitre Stavko and his daughter, Tyra. They have turned Moura into an academy for young...

They sailed at midnight—rich, blond, delicate Jennifer on her way to be wed; fiery, red-headed Iras, paid companion to the bride. It was to be a joyous voyage, but Iras’ heart was filled with foreboding. Why did she feel a half-love for Jennifer's fiancé, Richard...a man she'd never met? Why...

They call her "The Demon Lera," a name her beauty belies: Straight black hair, full sensuous lips, long aristocratic body. Opaque golden eyes. She is Countess Silvana Lera, mistress of an island fortress home to:Mrs. Stitch, the housekeeper, whose knowledge is worth more than her life.Benedetto,...

Convicted of the murder of her sister-in-law, Judith Cameron spent nine years in prison. Now on parole, she is summoned to a lush Hawaiian island to care for her childlike niece, Deirdre, bride of the handsome and imperious Stephen Giles. Despite herself, Judith finds herself drawn to the magnetic...

Rachel Carewe flees the dangers of revolutionary France and seeks sanctuary amid Venice’s turbulent society. There, she meets a dark and dangerous man who is not what he seems. Venice, that city of water and shadows, is a place of mystery and peril where death may lie in wait for Rachel...but so may love.

Young, penniless Devon Howard's dreams of becoming an actress began when she joined Boston's Dantine Players at a time when the unrest against British rule seethed towards revolution. As the players toured the colonies, Devon found herself torn between Denis Varney, the company's leading man, and...

THREE FABULOUS WOMEN MAGGILEE--Beauty, magnetism, willfulness. She had them all, this red-haired temptress from the wrong side of the tracks. She had married into one of Virginia's fine old families and lived to regret it... VARINA--The grandmother. A great Southern lady in a proud tradition....

Money isn't everything—but it's better than a broken heart. Married at fifteen to a heartless fortune hunter, Kay Amberley has learned her lesson. She is determined not to let another man marry her for her money. But when love sneaks up on Kay, she finds it hard to remember even the most hard-learned lesson of her life.

Lucifer Cove lay a few miles south of San Francisco. When the sun shone it looked like a picture postcard--a beautiful, green spa where people could take a luxurious, memorable holiday. But shrouded in the fog that drifted in from the sea, it became a harbour for the lonely and the lost, an...