Patricia Rice
Spinster and secret novelist Clarissa Knightley and her gruff American engineer, Captain Huntley, along with their friend and cousin, the Honorable Jack de Sackville and Lady Elspeth, are to wed at last! In anticipation of the double wedding, friends and family are gathering at moldering Wycliffe Manor—until a dying stranger is discovered on the neglected grounds.
Despite the tragedy, aristocratic wedding guests, and their retinues, foreign
...Award-winning author Patricia Rice presents three romantic novellas from her celebrated Crystal Magic series—together for the first time in one collection.
The Wedding Gift: Having overcome the obstacles of their past, Samantha Moon and Chen Ling Walker are ready to walk down Hillvale's eccentric version of a wedding aisle. Can they also conquer the complications of the present—a mysterious doll that won't stay in one place
...NYT bestselling author Patricia Rice returns to the ghostly town of Hillvale, where nothing is quite as it seems—
She sees the future; he lives in the past. Danger shadows the present. . .
Once a childhood TV star, now a tarot reader in the town of Hillvale—home of 325 people and countless ghosts—Amber Abercrombie is content now that she's escaped the horror of her stage mother and the constant pressure
...4) Topaz Dreams
Teddy Devine-Baker arrives in her childhood home of Hillvale with a box of crystals and an attitude. Her empathic gift has ruined one relationship and most of her jewelry business, leaving her determined to learn more about a talent she's never properly respected. Unfortunately, her empathy fails to work on tall, dark, handsome Kurt Kennedy, the aloof architect who warmed her heart as a child. Although his family owns most of Hillvale, Kurt avoids
...Mariah lives off the grid by waitressing, weaving ghostcatchers to send Hillvale's ghosts across the veil, and keeping clear of electronics that haunt her—until the day her friend and mentor, Crazy Daisy, is murdered, and Mariah goes on the hunt for a killer. Her prime suspect is geologist Keegan Ives. Mysteriously arrived from the UK, he was present when Daisy died, and he's too handsome to believe—not that Mariah takes a dim view
...Another episode in NYT bestselling author Patricia Rice's exciting Crystal Magic series!
A librarian searches for healing, a felon yearns for forgiveness, and an enemy stalks them both
Hannah Simon holds the library of her ancestors in her head, but she's in danger of losing her steel-trap mind along with the information it holds. Her only hope is a legendary moonstone said to have healed in times
...From bestselling author Patricia Rice, another romantic mystery from the peculiar town of Hillvale, CA. . .
A chef who brews magic challenges a mayor with secrets
After a childhood of being tossed from foster homes for claiming she can detect liars by their scent, Fiona Malcolm McDonald does her best to conceal her secret these days. But when she sniffs a wrongdoer and drives him off with jalapeño cheesecake, she
...The descendant of adventuring—dead—aristocrats, Clarissa Knightley supplements a modest inheritance by penning gothic novels that cost more than they earn. Upon learning that she has mysteriously inherited a share of an earl's estate, she rashly packs up her household. In remote Gravesyde Priory, she hopes to find a safe haven and family who will welcome her and her young nephew.
Instead, she discovers a drunken American army captain,
...Wycliffe Manor has been neglected for decades. Its new heirs are determined to create a welcoming home. Yet soon after the latest family moves into the nearby parsonage, bones are uncovered in the orchard... and odd strangers arrive.
Gawky spinster Patience Upton has high expectations when her curate father returns them to Gravesyde for the marriages of the manor's heirs—until her father is murdered. Shock at learning her father had a mysterious
...On a long-delayed errand to remote Wycliffe Manor, ex-Lieutenant Jack de Sackville stumbles across the murdered body of London dandy, Basil Culpepper, in the hedgerow, a long way from his usual haunts. To Jack's dismay, he discovers the earl's daughter Culpepper ruined hiding in Wycliffe's kitchen.
Disguised as a lowly cook, Lady Elspeth Villiers may have liked to shoot Culpepper for ruining her life, but she dropped out of sight for more immediate
...Minerva Peniston, intrepid spinster and booklover, is determined to capture the villain who tried to shoot a duke at a book auction—imperiling her father's position and the only home she's ever known. And now the same wealthy bibliophiles are gathering at Wycliffe Manor...
Paul Upton, over-educated and impoverished curate, has volunteered to assist the residents of Wycliffe Manor in preparing for a book auction to save the village and the
...13) Sapphire Nights
Samantha Moon arrives in Hillvale—population 325 lives and countless ghosts—in a fog as thick as the one circling the aging mountain town. Bereft of friends and family, money and memory, all she has to her name is a stray cat... but that's apparently enough for the people of Hillvale to take her in. L.A. investigator Chen Ling Walker's problem is too many memories. He's come to bury his tragic past in this remote California town, where
...At Wycliffe Manor, a legendary pirate treasure draws danger... .Bestselling author Patricia Rice brings you another haunting country house mystery in Regency England. . .
An heiress haunted by ghosts, Dotty Dorothea knows her family believes her mad. Fearing fortune hunters who would lock her and her awkward little brother in an asylum, she flees behind the ancient walls of Wycliffe Manor.
A French artist
...All Blake Montague wants is to save Europe from a tyrant. But as the penniless youngest son of a baron, he needs a marriage of convenience to provide the money he requires for a military commission. Then he meets a blonde beauty who can fulfill all his needs-especially those satisfied by a wife...
Christmas 1815. Upstairs and downstairs, Holbourne Abbey is abuzz with preparations for a grand ball to celebrate the year's most festive—and romantic—holiday. For at the top of each guest's wish list is a last chance to find true love before the New...
Unwrap the most romantic of Regency delights in this sparkling holiday collection . . .
Christmastime in England—a time for passionate secrets, delicious whispers, and wicked-sweet gifts by the fire. From a spirited lady who sets...
18) The Journey Home
"Ten tales to tug at your heart strings and remind us all that heroes come in a variety of packages."—Romance Reviews Today
"A stellar cast of authors..."—TheBestReviews.com
He makes you cry for his pain and cheer for his victories. He fills your daydreams and remains etched in your memory for all time. He's the wounded hero—the most compelling figure in romantic fiction. And he's...