THE PRECIOUS STONE OF GOOD FORTUNE DELIVERED HER INTO A DREADED HOUSE OF EVIL! Strange stories were told about the Fenton Garnet and the powers attributed to it. But even stranger was the proposal made by the mysterious James Cole to young Betsy Turner: to wear the fabled ring and impersonate its rightful owner, the woman to whom Betsy bore a striking resemblance - his wife, Gail Fenton Cole. Betsy couldn't resist the urge to place the ring on her finger... visit Fenton Castle dressed up in Gail's clothing... and meet Gail's grandparents. But once she saw the Garnet ring, it changed her life. She was ruled by it... her destiny somehow joined to the fate of the Fentons! Once she wore the garnet ring, she was cursed!

WHO ELSE WAS IN THE GRAVEYARD? What price would Jean pay to silence forever the hideous rumors about her cousin Rhoda? The townspeople still spoke about the unsolved murder of Rhoda's lover, Thomas Gomez - and the mysterious "third person" at the fatal tryst in the graveyard 50 years ago. Jean searched every corner of Rhoda's old house for clues - now she studied the kitchen selves. She spied a dusty box on the uppermost ledge...how long could it have been hidden there? Excited, she reached up and pried at the lid. It opened. Suddenly the room was bathed in the spectral glow of amethyst... as Jean stared straight in the eyes of a witness to murder!

The cause of Sarah Shreck’s tragedy has been a mystery for over a century. The Indian chieftain’s daughter, callously betrayed by her husband, was found dead near the place where her present-day namesake, the showboat Indian Princess, lay at anchor. When Lyssa du Champ is hired as new star singer on the extravagant boat, she is relieved to have left Chicago and a failed relationship behind her. But when she arrives at Linder’s Landing she is troubled by a strange presence and cannot ignore the peculiar atmosphere between her new colleagues. Violent lovers, affairs and a young child who is frequently abandoned to face her seizures make Lyssa question whether this is the right place for her… The death of Sarah is regarded as local legend and time has failed to unlock the riddle of her disappearance. Yet it has also failed to banish her presence from the boat. Lonely ghost-like moans filter up from the lower decks and there is an outbreak of unexplained accidents. Items go missing, warnings are received and a lethal dog breaks free of his chain. Is there someone else who can hear Sarah? And what is the message she is trying to send? When a suicide prompts the revelation of ghastly secrets and unleashes dangerous rivalries, Lyssa discovers the terrifying truth about her predecessor’s apparent suicide. Stone of Blood is a gripping supernatural horror set in the Deep South from Juanita Coulson, bestselling author of the Children of the Stars series. “… A richly detailed construction…” C J Cherryh “Coulson works on an enormous canvas—sometimes almost overwhelming. The characters are always memorable.” Marion Zimmer Bradley Juanita Coulson is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. She is also widely known in filk music circles since the 1950s for her singing and songwriting; she has won several Pegasus Awards for her filking. For thirty-three years, she co-edited the science fiction fanzine Yandro with her husband "Buck" (Robert Coulson). Yandro was nominated for a Hugo Award every year from 1958-1967; it won the award in 1965, thus marking Coulson as one of the very first women to be so honored.

Diamond—the jewel of love or the tool of treachery? Although Alana Rodgers only knew her grandmother, wealthy Lillian Garrett, as kind and loving, she heard rumors that the elderly lady had an eccentric and vicious streak. So when Lillian invited a strange assortment of guests to her estate for and Easter Egg hunt, Alana's suspicions were aroused...especially when she discovered that the prize would be the fabulous Lake Diamond! Then Alana learned that her grandmother had a passionate hatred for every one of the the guests, believing them to have wronged her. suddenly the "hunt" was beset by violent, unexplained accidents...and Alana realized that she herself was not exempt from her grandmother's deadly game of death...

A young bride haunted by spectre of love in a house of evil.

A Talisman of Terror! When Venora Alren learned of her friend Julie's suicide, she was shocked and bewildered. Julie had been young, happily married, a girl with everything to live for. Why would she have taken her own life? The question troubled Venora even more when she was given Julie's moonstone pendant. It was a family heirloom; a beautiful, pearlescent love gift to Julie's mother which had, ironically, brought both mother and daughter to violent ends. Now the pendant was Venora's, and from the moment she slipped it about her neck she knew her will was not her own. For suddenly she was trapped in a tormented netherworld—and slowly, inexorably, forced to relive another woman's death...

According to legend, the Burma ruby had the magic power to grant anything the heart desired. But it was cursed, and all who owned the stone would die tragically, damned for eternity. When Joseph Hanson inherited the gem after his uncle's bizarre murder, his wife Liza grew afraid. Though his fortune increased, he became surly and brutal, as if his humanness were being sucked from him. Suddenly, Liza knew there was only one way to stave off the curse of centuries. Available only in Romance 12.

The treasured stone of Ancient Greece forced her into a deadly web of supernatural terror! Haunted by a Birthstone of Death! Sorina had agreed to stay at the deserted mansion known as West House to write the Howald family history. It would, she thought, give her more of a feeling for the family that had lived there—the family had been savagely and inexplicably murdered the year before. Being calm and levelheaded, she thought nothing of the strange, almost spectral cat that seemed to appear at odd moments from nowhere. But then she noticed the Carnelian about its neck; felt the stone watching her, beckoning her. And slowly she realized she was being drawn back into a nightmare of carnage to solve a riddle of death—where the only answer lay beyond the grave. The treasured stone of Ancient Greece forced her into a deadly web of supernatural terror! CARNELIAN—The August birthstone—deep russet red symbol of everlasting beauty.

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Risa had awakened to a nightmare. Knocked unconscious in a minor accident only moments before, now, somehow, her whole life had changed. The man beside her was a total stranger. She didn't recognize her surroundings, her clothing—even her face looked different. There had to be an answer. That's what she thought until she arrived home to the most horrifying shock of all she had been dead for a year! Was she going mad? Only a strange family heirloom, a topaz brooch, could solve the mystery. But once Risa let it open the door to the forgotten past—it would unleash a terror she would never forget....