Daphne Du Maurier

The second Mrs. de Winter recalls the events that led her to the isolated gray stone manse on the windswept Cornish coast. With a husband she barely knew, the young bride arrived at this immense estate, only to be inexorably drawn into the life of the first Mrs. de Winter, the beautiful Rebecca, dead, but never forgotten; and as an eerie presentiment of evil tightened around her heart, the second Mrs....

"A feisty beauty with a sharp wit and sharper tongue, eighteen-year-old Honor Harris captures the attention of Richard Grenvile, a commanding and charismatic man with a sometimes cruel sense of justice. But when a riding accident cripples Honor days before their wedding, she resigns herself to life without Richard. Fifteen years later, war forces Honor to shelter with relatives at the estate of Menabilly. Richard, now a general in the king's army,...

"Once his secretary, Colleen is now pregnant with Michael's baby. When he brings her to his opulent estate, Ravenwood, she is abruptly thrust into a life of luxury she's never known. But Colleen finds the immense house suffused with the memory of Michael's beautiful wife, Joanna, who left months ago and who haunts her imagination. It quickly becomes apparent that there is little room for a new mistress of this house: The staff greets her with hostility,...