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  The Villa - An innocent viewing...

  Elinor Mordaunt

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  Evelyn May Clowes was born on 7th May 1872 in Cotgrave, Nottinghamshire.  
   
  Growing up in genteel circumstances, her early childhood was spent at Charlton Down House near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, and her teenage years near Heythrop in the Cotswolds.  
   
  She was educated at home by governesses, excelling at German, Latin, Greek, shorthand, landscape painting, and fabric and wallpaper design. 
   
  In 1897 she went to Mauritius as companion to her cousin Caroline and in 1898 married Maurice Wilhemn Wiehe, the owner of a sugar plantation. She gave birth to two stillborn children. After a few years of marriage, she found life difficult and returned to England. Shortly afterwards she went by herself to Australia, arriving in June 1902 and gave birth to a son a few months later.   
   
  She lived in Melbourne for about eight years.  To earn a living she took on a wide and varied range of jobs; she edited a woman's fashion paper, wrote short stories and articles, made blouses, designed embroideries, tilled gardens, acted as a housekeeper, and did other artistic work. Her health was not strong, but she undertook any kind of work which would provide a living for herself and her infant son. This gained her an experience of life which was readily put to use in her literary works. 
   
  Her first book, ‘The Garden of Contentment’, was published in 1902 under her pen-name Elinor Mordaunt. It was the first of many works that covered fiction, short stories, travel and autobiography. 
   
  She changed her name by deed poll to Evelyn May Mordaunt on 1st July 1915 and gained a further reputation as a writer of short stories for magazines which display both her humour and sense of tragedy. Travel was always high on her priority and the experiences used not only for pleasure but in her writings and, as travel books, ideas in themselves.  
   
  On 27th January 1933 at Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, she married a retired barrister from Gloucestershire. In her own words, the marriage ‘ended in tragedy.’ 
   
  Elinor Mordaunt died on 25th June 1942 at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. She was 70. 
   
  In this story Mordaunt takes a house and a wish and reveals a very troubling family history.

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  The Evelyn Project

  Kfir Luzzatto

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  IF THE PRESENT CAN CHANGE THE PAST, WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO US IF WE MAKE A MISTAKE? WELL, YOU ARE ABOUT TO FIND OUT. 
    
  Evelyn is too young to die, but tuberculosis is consuming her and time is running out for her…in 1894. But can Franco, Evelyn's young relative who lives more than a century away in 2009, really be her savior? 
    
  When Franco becomes a piece in the game that has saving Evelyn as its prize, his life would be complicated enough without Eva, the young and beautiful aspiring actress with whom he falls in love. Eva returns Franco's love, or so he believes, but who Eva really is, and what she's up to, is difficult to say when you're busy running away from murder and conspiracy. 
    
  The race to save Evelyn is run in a slippery battlefield between the Vatican and a dangerous cult. While Franco and Eva chase and are chased all over Europe, they discover that in this game all is fair, just like in love.

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  The Duke's Secluded Bride

  Ruth Ann Nordin

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  Most gentlemen wait to get married because they want time to enjoy being a bachelor before taking on the responsibilities of a married gentleman. Baldwin Darby, the Duke of Edmondstone, isn’t one of them. The life of a rogue never appealed to him. He’s wanted nothing more than to fall in love and live a quiet and uneventful life ever since he could remember. It wasn’t by choice that he hasn’t married yet. He’s just not very comfortable around ladies, which makes the marriage mart difficult for him. 
  So when his acquaintance mentions a sister at his country estate who is ready for marriage, he jumps at the chance for an arranged marriage. He’s been told she is extremely shy and that it takes her time to open up around strangers, so he might find her a bit strange when he initially meets her. But this doesn’t bother him. He’s a patient gentleman and can give her time to get used to him. 
  What he doesn’t count on, however, is just how strange everything is when he gets to the country estate. She refuses to leave her section of the manor, she has to go to bed before it's dark, and she has an unusual fascination for monsters. Despite all of that, she is beautiful and possesses a sweet temperament. He wishes he could figure out a way to help her embrace a normal life. 
  If he keeps pressing for her to have a normal life, he just might get his wish. But nothing will prepare him for the truth. 
  *This is loosely based off the Rapunzel fairy tale.

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  Sins of the Father

  Michael Anderle

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  Jasmine is coming back for the man who killed her.After a late night rendezvous with a stranger goes sideways, Jasmine finds herself waking to a man holding a gun loaded with silver bullets. In her final moments, she hears her killer utter her long-lost father's name.Her world should have ended when she tumbled from that seventeenth-story window . . .Instead, she dug herself out of her own grave.Fueled by confusion, Jasmine is lost and alone in the city she once called home. Unable to tap into her Were powers, she will need to rely on her newly-emerging abilities to navigate the seedy underbelly of the city.Who is her father? What does Deshawne Pierce want with her? Who is the strange half-fairy who runs her local tavern?All these questions demand answers. If Jasmine can rise from the grave, surely the truth can, too?

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  The Archangel Project

  C.S. Graham

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  A murdered psychologist with ties to a secret CIA-funded remote viewing project . . .A haunted young Iraq War vet with a "psycho" discharge and a talent that has marked her for death . . .A deadly secret that will rock the world.You can't hide the truth from those who can see.When the charred remains of Tulane professor Henry Youngblood are discovered in the burned-out ruins of his New Orleans offices, the CIA sends maverick troubleshooter Jax Alexander to investigate. Joined in a reluctant partnership with remote viewer October "Tobie" Guinness, Jax struggles to decipher a cryptic set of clues that leads from the devastated neighborhoods of New Orleans to the power corridors of  Washington, D.C. Pursued by agents of an influential oil and defense conglomerate with ties to the President himself, Jax and Tobie soon find themselves in a breakneck race against time to stop a ruthless killer and avert a diabolical plot that could devastate America.

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  Lacrimore

  SJ Costello

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  Sivre Sen is a spiritual medium who's lost her faith. Though it's been years since the epidemic that swept the mainland and changed her life, she has yet to find the answers—or closure—that she's looking for. When she's summoned to conduct the funeral rites for a reclusive scholar, the unusual circumstances give her hope that maybe, finally, she'll find the answers she needs. 
  Far from the mainland, on a small island in the middle of a lake, stands Lacrimore, centuries old and wreathed in grim legends. But something much darker than legends thrives within its walls, waiting to lay claim to the house's inhabitants. As Sivre rediscovers her place in the world, she'll need all of her newfound strength to dig her fingers into the monstrous foundation of Lacrimore and expose the secrets it is built upon.

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