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Clare folgt ihrem Mann, als sie 1921 von England in die Hitze Apuliens reist. Boyd arbeitet dort als Architekt für den reichen Grundbesitzer Leandro Cardetta, und möchte, dass Clare den Sommer bei ihm verbringt. Doch Boyd empfängt sie abweisend und scheint etwas zu verbergen. Auf sich allein gestellt erkundet Clare die fremde Umgebung und lernt dabei Ettore kennen, den Neffen des Grundbesitzers. Clare fühlt sich unbändig zu ihm hingezogen - zu einer Welt, in die sie nicht gehört und die droht, für beide zum Verhängnis zu werden.

Zwei Schwestern, ein brennendes Geheimnis und eine düstere Vergangenheit... Nach dem Tod ihrer Großmutter erben die Schwestern Erica und Beth das Gut Storton Manor im englischen Wiltshire...

Bath, 1821. Die prächtigen Häuser von Landsdown Crescent thronen über der englischen Stadt - hier stellt sich Rachel als Gesellschafterin vor und begegnet dem zurückgezogenen Jonathan zum ersten Mal. Obwohl ihn dunkle Erinnerungen zu quälen scheinen, zieht er sie in seinen Bann. Einst verlor er seine große Liebe Alice unter mysteriösen Umständen. Welches Geheimnis verbindet Rachel mit jener jungen Frau, die so plötzlich verschwand und der sie aufs Haar gleicht?

England, 1911. Reverend Albert Canning, a vicar with a passion for spiritualism - and his naive wife, Hester - led a happy existence in the sleepy parish of Cold Ash Holt, Berkshire. As summer dawns, their quiet lives are changed forever by two new arrivals. First comes Cat, the new maid; a free-spirited and disaffected young woman sent down from London after entanglements with the suffragette movement and with the law.

In the bitter winter of 2009, following the death of their grandmother, Erica Calcott and her sister Beth return to Storton Manor, a grand and imposing Wiltshire house where they spent their summer holidays as children. When Erica begins to sort through her grandmother's belongings, she is flooded with memories of her childhood - and of her cousin, Henry, whose disappearance from the manor tore the family apart. Erica sets out to discover what happened to Henry.

Bath, 1821: Rachel Crofton escapes her unhappy employment as a governess by marrying a self-made businessman. But her new life soon takes an unexpected turn. Reclusive Jonathan Alleyn is a man tormented by the disappearance of his childhood sweetheart, Alice. Starling, foundling child and now servant, is convinced that Alice, the woman she loved as a sister, was stolen from her. Did Alice run away? Or did something altogether more sinister occur? As Starling tries to expose the lies behind Bath's immaculate facades, others want only to forget, and will go to extreme lengths to do so.

Hollywood has thrilled—and titillated—audiences with tales of women who love monsters since King Kong and The Creature from the Black Lagoon. Our love affair with the ultimate “others” continued as we made the acquaintances of Barnabas Collins, Swamp Thing, the Vampire Lestat, Hellboy, and Shrek. It should come as no surprise that when ViceTV decided to do an episode on “Monsters Fantasies”, they came to Riverdale Avenue Books to interview some of those authors in an episode that aired in March 2018.

When they were children, Erica Calcott and her sister, Beth, spent their summer holidays at Storton Manor. Now, following the death of their grandmother, they have returned to the grand, imposing house in Wiltshire, England. Unable to stem the tide of childhood memories that arise as she sorts through her grandmother's belongings, Erica thinks back to the summer her cousin Henry vanished mysteriously from the estate, an event that tore their family to pieces. It is time, she believes, to lay the past to rest.

A vicar with a passion for nature, the Reverend Albert Canning leads a happy existence with his naive wife, Hester, in their sleepy Berkshire village in the year 1911. But as the English summer dawns, the Cannings' lives are forever changed by two new arrivals: Cat, their new maid, a disaffected, free-spirited young woman sent down from London after entanglements with the law; and Robin Durrant, a leading expert in the occult, enticed by tales of elemental beings in the water meadows nearby.

Vierzehn Jahre ist es her, dass auf einem herrschaftlichen Anwesen in der pittoresken Grafschaft Wiltshire ein Mann im Schlaf erstochen wurde. Zwar sorgte Inspector Matthew Lockyer damals für die Verurteilung der Haushälterin Hedy Lambert, doch diese beteuerte stets ihre Unschuld. Als Hedy nun eindringlich um seinen Besuch im Gefängnis bittet, wird Lockyer gemeinsam mit seiner Kollegin Constable Gemma Broad in den alten Fall zurückgeworfen.