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Allie McGregor is thrilled when she inherits a Painted Lady Victorian mansion from her estranged aunt, Eliza Ramsdale. But it has strings attached. Eliza wants Allie to clear the name of her husband, who died in prison. Allie accepts - but first she has to discover who is trying to drive her out of the house. Clay Carver just wants the job of restoring the Ramsdale house. He never planned on falling in love with the new owner - or dealing with threats....
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2021.
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Kate Hamilton is feeling good about her plans to recreate Asheboro, Maryland as the Victorian town it once was. The town is finally on her side, and the finances are coming together. Even two recent murders aren't enough to discourage her: after she helped to solve them, she put them behind her. Now comes the time to make real plans, and her first goal is to renovate the Barton Mansion on the outskirts of town. Luckily, it's been maintained in good...
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Robinswood story volume Book 1
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"The once-grand house is now home to two very different families. Despite delusions of grandeur, Lord and Lady Kenefick and their adult children live a life of decayed opulence as the money needed to keep such a large house and grounds ever dwindles. Meanwhile, the Murphy family, Dermot, Isabella and their three almost grown up girls, live and work on the estate and do their best to keep everything running smoothly. Social structure is vital. Everyone...
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Tentmakers Entertainment
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c2008
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Explore the wonders of George Vanderbilt's private estate, from soaring architectural details and beautiful rooms filled with magnificent art and furnishings, to glorious historic gardens and grounds-plus fascinating stories of the Vanderbilt's family and their guests.
65) Playing Dirty
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When Cade Gallari, who made her life a living hell in high school, wants to shoot a documentary about the mysterious mansion she inherited, former "fat girl" Ava Spencer, the owner of a successful concierge business, refuses to be at his beck and call, especially in the bedroom.
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2020.
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"In the vein of The Lovely Bones and The Little Friend, Ghosts of the Missing follows the mysterious disappearance of a twelve-year-old girl during a town parade and the reverberations of this tragedy throughout the town"--
On Saturday, October 28, 1995, a girl vanished. She was not a child particularly prized in town ... When questioned by reporters, those who'd known Rowan described her as 'quiet' and 'loner' and 'shy' and even 'awkward.' Words...
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Someone's been slayed! If contractor Shannon Hammer can't nail the real culprit in the St. Nick of time, her dad will wind up in the clink ... Even at Christmastime, Shannon is more spackle than sparkle, which is why she leaps at the chance to transform a grand old Victorian mansion into ten charming apartments for homeless families. Filled with the spirit of the season, all of Lighthouse Cove turns out to help--including her best friends, a troupe...
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Locke and Key volume 6
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IDW Publishing
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"It took two lifetimes and countless victims, but Lucas "Dodge" Caravaggio has his terrible prize at last: the key which will open The Black Door. Disguised in the form of little Bode Locke, Dodge descends into the Drowning Cave, to throw back the door and release the demons on the other side. Those who have stood against him for so long - Tyler, Kinsey, Scot, Nina, Rufus, and all the rest - take their places as the final tragedy unfolds ... a confrontation...
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Seven Seas Entertainment
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[2020]
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Yachiho has settled into her decidedly haunted house, where she helps wandering spirits cross to the other side. However, her spooky home life is starting to invade her school as well. Even stranger, the mysterious spirit-master Kamo Chihaya shows up at her school, claiming to be her new teacher. Yachiho isn't the only one searching for the Book of the Dead: Her powerful new rivals threaten to turn her life upside down!
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When Kate Shackleton disembarks at Saltaire station in the West Riding of Yorkshire, she has no idea what to expect. A stranger, Ronnie Creswell, has written to say that he has urgent information about the past that will interest her, and he persuades her to make the journey to Milner Field, the grand house that is said to be cursed. But moments after Kate arrives at the lodge, a messenger brings devastating news to Ronnie's parents: he has been found...
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Sister and brother Lily and Robert Brewster, raised in the lap of luxury, may no longer have a penny to their names, but at least they have a roof over their heads -- which is more than many can say in this bleak November of 1932. And now there's even some cash rolling in, but their luck turns sour when a mysterious stranger comes to Grace and Favor willing to pay to have a secret meeting there shortly before the presidential election. Are they gangsters?...
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Chicago is known throughout the world for its architecture. Although many people are familiar with the city's skyscrapers and public buildings, they often overlook or are unaware of Chicago's mansions that are located throughout the city. These mansions represent Chicago's past and its future, and it can even be said that they are the very embodiment of Chicago and its architecture. These fashionable residences were built to make a statement, and
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In a novel inspired by Audrey Hepburn's classic film Sabrina, a caterer returns to the grand Long Island estate--now set for demolition--where she grew up as the daughter of the house manager, and where a rekindled love triangle reveals bittersweet truths about her upbringing and a shattering secret about her family.
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Locke and key volume Related works
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IDW Publishing
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"The dead plot against the living, the darkness closes in on Keyhouse, and a woman is shattered beyond repair, in the third storyline of the Eisner-nominated series. Dodge continues his relentless quest to find the key to the black door, and raises an army of shadows to wipe out anyone who might get in his way. Surrounded and outnumbered, the Locke children find themselves fighting a desparate battle, all alone, in a world where the night itself has...
75) Windhall
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Pegasus Crime
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2021.
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An investigative journalist in modern Los Angeles attempts to solve the Golden Age murder of a Hollywood starlet.
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Locke and key volume Related works
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"The Locke children have grown accustomed to the myriad magical keys discovered within the ancestral family home of Keyhouse. They have also grown accustomed to tragedy. What they may not be prepared for is just how closely danger stalks their every move as Lucas Caravaggio, alias Zack Wells, continues his relentless quest for the key to the black door. New keys and old specters join the story as innocence is lost and determination is forged" -- Back...
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Locke and key volume 5
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The sprawling tale of the Locke family and their mastery of the "whispering steel" thunders to new heights as the true history of the family is revealed to Tyler and Kinsey. Zack Wells assumes a new form, Tyler and Kinsey travel through time, and surprises beyond imagination will be revealed before the sixth issue ends.
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Locke and Key volume 1
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IDW Publishing
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Following their father's gruesome murder in a violent home invasion, the Locke children return to his childhood home of Keyhouse in secluded Lovecraft, Massachusetts. Their mother, Nina, is too trapped in her grief--and a wine bottle--to notice that all in Keyhouse is not what it seems: too many locked doors, too many unanswered questions. Older kids Tyler and Kinsey aren't much better. But not youngest son Bode, who quickly finds a new friend living...
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Seven Seas Entertainment
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[2021]
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"Flora moves into a mysterious mansion and finds it inhabited by a strange creature--Creepy Cat! Thus begins her strange and sometimes dangerous life with a feline roommate. This Gothic comedy brings the chuckles ... and the chills!"--Amazon.