The beautiful editor of a New York fashion magazine, Alissa Walsh was uncertain about her future. Should she give up a challenging career to marry Edward Thorpe, handsome scion of a wealthy Boston family?

A dream vacation at his ancestral island home seemed to provide the answer. But immediately Alissa was confronted with tantalising new questions. How could Edwin's aristocratic mother recognize her when they had never met before? Who was the tormented spirit who came to Alissa's room pleading for help? Why did Alissa so closely resemble her ghostly visitor?

From Chris Devane, the ruggedly attractive fisherman to whom she was strangely drawn, Alissa learned some terrifying answers. And from a long-hidden diary she learned the truth of an ancient tragedy - and knew she could be the next to die..

A top pastry chef presents ambrosial recipes adapted for the home cook.

It was a Cinderella-story-come-true for Jane Baron when the famus photographer David Ransome "discovered" her workingin her uncle's seaside hotel and whisked her away from a dull, quiet provincial life and set about training her as a fashion model...

Shipwrecked on the remote Brazilian island of Janeleza, Morvenna found herself pitched into the situation that for one month – until the next steamer came along -- she must accept the authority of the island's autocratic overlord, Roque de Braz Ferro. She found the prospect, to say the least, daunting. And yet …