Allison Chase crafts compelling novels that frequently draw from her lifelong fascination with history. Her stories are imbued with rich pasts and evoke the atmosphere of the ancient sites she loves to explore. Through her works, she transports readers to different times and cultures, where romantic plots intertwine with historical settings. Her style is designed to fully immerse readers, offering them an unforgettable literary experience.
Raised on their uncle's country estate, the four orphaned Sutherland sisters formed a close friendship with the young Princess Victoria. Shortly before her coronation as queen, Victoria asks the sisters to serve her in matters requiring the utmost discretion. They are to become her secret servants. Sister Holly's affinity with horses leads the queen to enlist her help when a prized Thoroughbred colt, a gift from the Ashworth family, disappears.
Allison Chase sweeps readers away to a rugged, windswept landscape, where a haunted house holds the key to one man's tormented past...and one woman's restless yearning.They say that spirits haunt Blackheath Moor...They wed in haste—Nora Thorngoode, to save her ruined reputation, and Grayson Lowell, to rescue his estate from foreclosure for unpaid debts. Each resents the necessity to exchange vows that will bind them for all time, and yet from the first, passion flames between them...quickly engulfing them in a sensual obsession.But soon the lover that Nora married becomes a dark stranger to her—a man torn apart by guilt over his brother's mysterious death and driven half mad by ghostly specters who demand that Grayson expose the truth. Has Nora married a murderer whose wicked deeds blacken everything around them? Or, together, in the secret passageways of Blackheath Grange and along Cornwall's remote coastline, can Grayson and Nora discover what really happened that terrible night and, in setting free the troubled ghosts, free themselves as well?