***The ghost may be the least of her problems...***Vivacious actress Sybil Ingram looks forward to a life of security when she leaves the theater in 1873 to marry a wealthy American. But when he dies on their wedding night, she finds herself a penniless widow. Her only legacy is Brooke House, a Gothic revival manor in the wilds of the Hudson River Valley. However, the eerie mansion comes with two tenants. One is a hostile ghost. The second, and far worse, is former violinist Roderick Brook...

Can a curse strike twice? Eighteen years ago, Clara Crofton was dismissed from her chambermaid position at Gravesend Hall for falling in love with the younger son of the house. When he died soon after in the Crimean War, she blamed the Gravesend Curse.Now, however, she has the chance to return to the sinister manor in triumph through a marriage of convenience to Atticus Blackwood, the twin brother of her dead sweetheart. But as gentle as her new husband ap...

"A satisfying supernatural YA tale that effectively mixes high school, magic and mystery." --Kirkus ReviewsBook one of the Ash Grove Chronicles. In the breathtaking Blue Ridge Mountains, Ash Grove High School for the Performing Arts draws the brightest and most talented teens. But beneath the peaceful surface, supernatural forces are at work...When ordinary high-school junior Joy Sumner visits a graveyard at midnight on a ...

For the first time, all three of Victorian medium Sybil Ingram’s book-length adventures are available in one collection! Now you can own all three full-length novels and five novelettes/short stories starring the intrepid actress-turned-detective as she uncovers mystery, hauntings, and romance. The set contains:Nocturne for a Widow (book 1): Sybil retires from the theater and stakes a claim on a haunted house, where she investigates a mystery and l...

In the breathtaking Blue Ridge Mountains, Ash Grove High School for the Performing Arts draws the brightest and most talented teens. But beneath the peaceful surface, supernatural forces are at work...Discover the world of Ash Grove, where you'll meet strong, smart teenaged girls and the guys who adore them. This collection includes all three novels in the Ash Grove Chronicles. In The Shadow and the Rose, Ash Grove junior Joy Sumner must s...

The thrilling sequel to the highly acclaimed Gothic romance With This Curse, winner of the 2015 Daphne du Maurier Award for historical mystery/suspense!She went in search of her past… and found danger in the present. Former seamstress Clara Blackwood seems to have found happiness at last. Now a blissfully married baroness, she is mistress of a grand estate. But soon a mysterious summons shatters her contented life. The grandmother Clara never knew...

Some families will do anything to protect their secrets...A haunting Victorian gothic mystery from the author of the acclaimed Sea of Secrets! In this short novella of about 80 pages, governess Medora Yates arrives at remote Hawksclaw House in the dying days of 1856 to find that the parents of her new charge won't even let her meet him. When surly Mr. Hawksclaw announces the next morning that the boy has died, Med...

FINALIST in the 2012 RONE (Reward of Novel Excellence) Awards!Love and magic always have consequences.In book two of the Ash Grove Chronicles, life keeps getting more complicated for Ash Grove senior Joy Sumner and her boyfriend, former teen model Tanner Lindsey. Having a baby on the way is stressful enough, even without her father’s disapproval of Tanner. When they learn that their unborn child may have been contaminated by the ev...

"A talented writer spinning another entrancing tale!" --Rose Mary Espinoza, InD'Tale magazine (InDTale.com)What if you were erased from your true love's memory? In book three of the Ash Grove Chronicles, just hours after Joy and Tanner’s daughter is born, Tanner finds himself in an alternate reality where Joy doesn’t know him and their baby doesn’t exist. But when he thinks he has found the source of the magic that has undone his world, a heartsore Maddie makes a ...

"DeWees is a Gothic voice for the modern age, where women are not hapless but heroic."—Leanna Renee Hieber, award-winning author of Strangely Beautiful and The Spectral CityIn the late nineteenth century, a vampire did not always take the form of a nightmarish ghoul. Rather, it might come in the guise of a pleasure-loving woman of independent means, an enigmatic aristocrat, or even a woman afire with righteous wrath. Enter the world of the Victorian Vampire...

"If one enjoys a great mystery with a touch of romance, there are few better than this!" --InD'Tale magazineWhen Sybil takes the stage again, murder plays the leading role. In September 1873, actress and spirit medium Sybil Ingram is eagerly anticipating her marriage to dashing violinist Roderick Brooke. But the wedding plans are halted by Roderick’s former lover, Julia de Lioncourt, who implores him to come to Paris to rescue her...

Can love conquer the shadows of suspicion—and murder?When innocent young Oriel Pembroke is disowned by her cruel father and takes refuge at the sumptuous seaside estate of Ellsmere, she doesn’t expect to fall in love with the brooding young duke, Herron—or to find her fragile new happiness tainted by his suspicions about the death of his father. Did his uncle truly murder the late duke, or is Herron’s grief tipping into madness? As Oriel tries to uncover t...