Mary Stewart

"Rose Cottage, a tiny thatched dwelling in an idyllic English country setting, would appear the picture of tranquility to any passerby. But when Kate Herrick returns to her childhood home, she uncovers a web of intrigue as tangled as the rambling roses in its garden. It is the summer of 1947. Kate, widowed in the war and comfortably settled in London, travels to Rose Cottage to retrieve some family papers for her grandmother. Curious as to the changes...

Keeping watch over the young Arthur Pendragon as he grows, the prince and prophet Merlin Ambrosius is haunted by a vision of a magical sword -- the fabled sword Caliburn, hidden for centuries. Sheathed in fire and stone, water and ice, the sword of the Emperor Maximus is destined to reveal the true High King. When Uther Pendragon is killed in battle, the time of destiny is at hand, and Arthur must claim the sword from a perilous chapel to claim his...

Gilly Ramsey inherits Thornyhold, the former home of her godmother, and discovers the arts of witchcraft still flourish even in the 20th century.

Arthur is King! But while he is unchallenged on the battlfield, sinister powers plot to destroy him in his own Camelot. When the rose-gold witch Morgause, Arthur's half-sister, ensnares him into an incestuous liaison -- and bears his son, Mordred, to use to her own evil ends -- a fatal web of love, betrayal and vengeance begins.... Seen through the eyes of Arthur's prophetic protector, Merlin -- whose own mysterious powers are in dire danger -- here...

Lovely Vanessa March did not think it was a strange for her husband to take a business trip to Stockholm. What was strange was the silence that followed. Then she caught a glimpse of him in a newsreel shot of a crowd near a mysterious circus fire in Vienna and knew it was more than strange. It was downright sinister.

A sheltered English girl, Jennifer Silver, has come to the remote Convent of Our Lady of the Storms, in the wild upper reaches of the French Pyrenees, to persuade her recently widowed cousin, Gillian Lamartine, not to become a nun. The Convent, nestling in a tiny valley against somber, brooding mountains, is dedicated to orphans. The sisters, on the whole, are of simple peasant stock--yet the chapel contains some of the finest art treasures of Europe....