18 books like Sweet Cassandra
Two Loves
Bill was handsome, tender and exciting, but Cherry knew she couldn't live on love alone. Phillip didn't attract her as Bill did, but his wealth could buy Cherry everything she'd always wanted. Cherry was determined to have them both. Cleverly concealing one's existence from the other, Cherry began leading a dangerous double life, unknowingly pushing all three of them toward disaster.
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Nightingale's song
It all happened too fast....
Celia's long lost father appeared and announced that he was a millionaire. Now, in his last days, he wanted to share his life, and his wealth with his only kin - his daughter. Celia was taken from her drab London flat to her father's fabulous villa in Monte Carlo. There she met Philippe, the dashingly handsome Frenchman who swept her into a confusion of fiery…
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The Fire of Love
The Malevolent Legacy
The mysterious Lady Lynche's dying wish was that her small son be returned to Lynche Castle where he could claim his inheritance. Lovely Carina Warner, alone and penniless, agreed to accompany him despite misgivings. What she would discover at Lynche Castle would more than justify her fears.
Along with their dreadful secret, the ancient walls held a darkly handsome…
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Falconridge
Beautiful, young Lauren Moore had been left penniless and homeless after the death of her mother, and Aunt Helena's unexpected invitation to live with her at Falconridge seemed almost too good to be true. She also found herself strangely drawn to darkly and handsome Norman Wade, her arrogant cousin by marriage. It wasn't long before Lauren realized that many inexplicable things happened at this…
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The Master of Phoenix Hall
One dear friend--One deadly foe
One day lovely young Angela Todd was a seamstress struggling to sustain herself in London; the next, she was independent and owner of a charming country cottage. Her legacy gave her everything she had ever wanted. Not even a series of cruel pranks, strange "accidents" and shrill threats could shake her resolve to remain at Dower House.
Gentle Greg Ingram, the…
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Danger at Dahlkari
Lauren Gray leaves England for exotic India after finishing school, but on the way her caravan is attacked by ritual murderers and her life barely saved, she begins her great adventure.
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Echoes from the past
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Women, or, Pour et contre
Women, or, Pour et contre
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Zeluco
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The mysterious warning
The mysterious warning
"The good old Count Renaud is dead, and his will makes the degenerate Rhodophil his heir, disinheriting his other son Ferdinand, who has married against his father's wishes. Rhodophil promises to share his new riches with his younger brother and his wife Claudina, but Ferdinand hears a mysterious voice from beyond the grave, warning him to flee his brother and his wife to save himself from sin…
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You Have Chosen
Toni tried to boy love, but she didn't know the price would be so high...
Toni Kenyon was young and pretty and passionately fond of all that life had to offer, but at this particular moment it seemed to offer nothing but unhappiness. For her best friend Helena had become engaged to the most wonderful man Toni had ever met. Nicholas Brendon; but Toni knew she was marrying him not for love, but…
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The Changing Years
She discovered that her husband was married with another woman.
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Armour Against Love
Uncertainty.
Christine read the letter in disbelief. Was she really to have another chance? Could she bear to return to her childhood home to care for her brother's three orphan children? She had run away with a married actor twenty years before and the village had not forgotten the scandal. Hunger and failure and loss of love had altered Christine's golden-haired beauty, but in spite of…
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A heart is broken
Too late for love.
Lovely young Mela thought her heart was broken when her fiance Tim found a new love. Jilted, she tries to escape from unhappiness by flying to England, perhaps working as secretary for her uncle, who is a member of the Government, she could forget the loss of love. But when she arrived in London, her uncle was dead, killed through enemy action. She finds there is some…
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Betrayal at Blackcrest
Spiderweb of Passion.
The great, grim manor of Blackcrest held many secrets for beautiful young Deborah Lane. London and safety seemed worlds and centuries away as she tried to discover what had happened here to her lovely cousin, whose face and name none in the house claimed to remember.
Yet even as she tried to pierce the veil of fearful mystery, Deborah felt herself falling -- like her…
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Wherever Lynn Goes
Rings of doom.
The phone calls had started again, even after Lynn had the number unlisted. They were always the same, the same low, husky voice saying "Lynn, Lynn, it's Daddy." They were sick, someone's poor idea of a joke. Lynn's father had been dead for years.
Then one night Lynn's aunt phoned, tried to warn her about something and was disconnected by death. The police said that her…
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Room Beneath the Stairs
As a child, Carolyn Dawson had love playing on Greycliff, an island off the Cornish coast owned by the rich and powerful Brandon family. There, she had met dashing once with Grey Brandon, the heir to the estate, and she had never forgotten him. Yet he had no memory of their brief, but shattered past. Now, he wanted to make her mistress of Greycliff Manor, his magnificent but eerie estate.…
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Secret by the Lake
Amy's always felt like something’s been missing in her life, but as a nanny for the Laurent family - Julia, Alain, Viviane - she feels complete.
So Amy wouldn’t think of leaving them when a sudden tragedy forces them to move from France to the small lakeside cottage in the isolated Somerset village where Julia grew up.
But there’s something strange about the cottage by the lake. This is…
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