V. J. Banis
Список книг автора V. J. BanisThe Lion's Gate
From childhood Peggy had loved her adopted sister Allison with a protective warmth that could only have come from a true Leo. But when Allison disappears from the family lake cottage, Peggy must call on her last ounce of strength and will to overcome the terror that confronts her at every turn. And when she finally finds the erratic young womanliving on the regal Lions Island Estateshe finds herself in the midst of an agonizing web of deceit, with Allison seemingly under the spell of the enigmatic Alex Lions.
Winds of Nightsong
Captive of a forbidden passion for the one man she must never love, Caroline Andrieux escapes into the powerful arms of a mysterious and magnificent lover. He offers her the sweet forgetfulness of sensual abandon, and the shocking reality of mortal danger, among the glittering Palazzi and decadent grandeur of Venice. But a Nightsong daughter cannot hope to find peace from the legacy of the tormented desire that rules her life: the desire that leads April into a deadly dream world in China…the desire that drove her mother, Lydia Nightsong, to raise a cosmetics empire with the man who possessed and betrayed her. Now, on the eve of April's triumph, the past takes the hideous shape of a vengeance too long denied. The stunning conclusion to the Nightsong Saga!
Green Willows
"I see two women struggling together by the lake. I see them fall into the water… The wind rustles the branches of the willows and it is the sound of gentle sobbing in the night… Someone screams…" Something dark and mysterious haunts the halls of stately Green Willows. Village gossip says it's the ghost of Jonathon Tremayne's wife, the beautiful and saintly Angela, who was treacherously murdered here. Pretty Mary Kirkpatrick, hired as governess to Jonathon’s only child, Elizabeth, quickly finds herself falling in love with the handsome master of Green Willows, and discounts the gossip–until the night she finds herself confronted with a ghostly apparition! A riveting horror novel with a nineteenth-century gothic setting!
Lucifer's Daughter
After eighteen long and friendless years in an orphanage, Julia has finally traced her father, the handsome Dr. Lucius Cagliostro, to a small New England village. But her happiness soon turns into nightmarish terror. The town of Belham is home to unspeakable evil, and the dark and sinister forces that have tormented her all her life are also present too. She quickly finds herself the prey of a demon-worshipping society that wants to make her a slave–or a sacrifice–to the great Lucifer himself. A gripping novel of supernatural horror by a master storyteller!
The Daughters of Nightsong
Trapped in a loveless marriage, April Nightsong longs for the China she once knew as a child, and for her forbidden lover, David McNair. When the lovers find themselves together in Paris, they set out together for China, unaware of the half-sister that awaits April there–or the evil that threatens to destroy the two lovers. Meanwhile, back in the United States, despite a surface existence of power and wealth, Lydia Nightsong, April's mother, suffers anguish and terror at the never-ending threats to her cosmetics empire and her life. The only man who can save her is her sworn enemy, the one she has vowed to avenge–the one she hopelessly loves with a love they once lost in the shadow of a nightsong. Book Two in the Nightsong Saga–a dynasty driven by lust and passion, a daughter forever marked by her mother's sin. Great historical romance by a master storyteller!
The Sins of Nightsong
Disllusioned with life in the Imperial palace in 1890s China, April brings her young son back to San Francisco, and sets out to exact revenge on her mother and Peter McNair, whom she blames for the death of her beloved. Lydia, Peter, Raymond, Leon, even her sister Mei Fei, all must suffer–but it is April herself who will pay the highest price of all for her sins. The thrilling continuation of the chronicles of the Nightsong family and their perfume-based commercial empire, a tale of lust and passion, seduction and intrigue.
White Jade
Young Christmas Channing returns to Jeff because he tells her that his life's in danger, that he's being poisoned with arsenic by his wife. But when she arrives at Morgan House, she doesn’t find what she expects–only David, the strange, secretive brother-in-law; Mary, Jeff's cunning, crafty spouse; and Jeff himself, the handsome but vastly changed young man whom she’d once loved, but does not now understand. Chris is lost, confused, and swept into a powerful undertow of danger, panic, and past love. Is Jeff really dying? And just what exactly is going on at Morgan House? It almost seems that the only stop for her now is…death. A wonderfully thrilling and very readable romantic suspense novel!
Charms, Spells, and Curses
This book is a how-to-do-it of black and white magic, and a how-it-is-done record, showing the magic at work of other times, peoples, places. Within these pages, you'll find special sections on methods of healing, matters of love, the divining arts, how to deal with demons, how to alter the form, how to gain wealth and importance, how to use talismans and how to use magic to create mischief. Here are charms that will chill your bones, answer your most intimate questions, and draw you deeper into the lore of magic than you've ever been before.
Moon Garden
Fleeing from the tragedy of a loved one's death, Ellen Miles came to her aunt's Southern mansion to regain her strength. Although she had only recently suffered a nervous breakdown, Ellen found herself drawn to two handsome, charming men, and finding love with one of them. Suddenly strange, terrifying events began to haunt her. Were the mansion and its garden really possessed by some diabolic force from the past? Or was Ellen's illness slowly, subtly returning to poison her thoughts? «A master storyteller.»–The Nashville Banner
Fire on the Moon
Jennifer's dream vacation in sunny Portugal has suddenly turned into an unending nightmare! The two brothers she encounters are bound by the same strange family heritage: a fascination with fire. Jennifer is attracted to both Neil and Philip Alenquer, but one of them is lying about the tragedy that has taken place in their castle overlooking the Atlantic. Philip claims that Neil had set the blaze that killed Neil's young wife after he'd discovered her in Philip's arms. Neil maintains that Philip had started the blaze, and he fears that Philip's insane pyromania is putting all their lives in danger. Jennifer doesn't know which of the brothers to believe, but when the villa she's staying burns to the ground, she knows that she's become the next target of an obsessed killer! A thrilling gothic suspense tale.