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Saga of the Phenwick Women
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#1
Augusta, The First
1975
Augusta, The First is the opening novel n the greatest series of gothic romances ever conceived. You wont' want to miss the others all exclusively in Popular Library editions. Young and beautiful Augusta Merrihew fled England and the strange evil that seemed to haunt her. In the new world of America she hoped to find the happiness and safety that so long had eluded her. When she met handsome and dashing Joshua Phenwick, it seemed her dreams had come true. She gave her hand in marriage to this man who was as mysterious as he was irresistible and on the lonely New England coast the great manor of Phenwick House was erected as a towering monument to their love. Little did Augusta know that she was entering a hellish nightmare. For the curse of the past has followed Augusta across the seas, in the form of a man who held her helpless by his iron will...
#2
Jane, the Courageous
1975
Jane, the Courageous is one f the spell binding novels in the greatest series of gothic romances ever conceived. You won't want to miss the others, all exclusively in Popular Library editions. When young, breathtakingly lovely Jane Munsk was adopted into the Phenwick family, she was told she should be grateful for the gift bestowed on her. Now the motherless girl would bear the proud Phenwick name, and be heiress to the Phenwick wealth, power and position. But from the moment the great doors of Phenwick closed behind her, Jane realized how perilous her new place in life would be. For in this home of many secrets and dark violence she was a puppet in the hands of the tyrannical mistress of the manor - and enslaved by a helpless passion for the handsome, haunted man who was her brother in name only, and who led her down a twisting path of danger to the ultimate betrayal of her love....
#3
Margaret, the Faithful
1975
Young Margaret O'Plaggerty had been in love with Daniel Phenwick since she was a little girl. Even when he was given up for lost in the Revolutionary War, her devotion did not waver, and his return to the great mansion of Phenwick House to claim her as his bride seemed a gift from heaven. But all too soon Margaret learned the hellish truth behind this promise of happiness. Within the proud and intense man whom she adored lay a grim and fearful torment. And overshadowing them even as they clung together was the spectre of a woman who was determined that their marriage not take place - a woman whose vengeful spirit returned from the grave with all the powers of darkness at her command to make sure that Margaret would pay the price of the Phenwick curse if she dared to bear the Phenwick name.
#4
Patricia, The Beautiful
1975
Stunningly beautiful and aristocratic Patricia Kelburn was transported worlds away from the lush Souther plantation where she had been raised. For reasons unclear to her, she was sent to the very private girls' finishing school of La Chenille in faraway Boston to be prepared for her future. Soon Patricia began to realize she was not a pupil but a prisoner in this strange establishment ruled by a lady with a dubious past, and filled with shocking intrigue and chilling danger. But worse was yet to come. For it was in a yet more distant and lonely place - the great and fearful mansion of the Phenwicks - that Patricia came face to face with the diabolical destiny designed for her, and with the powerful and perverse man who would not let her escape...
#5
Rachel, the Possessed
1975
Startlingly lovely Rachel Phenwick knew that somehow she was not like other girls. It was not only that she was a Phenwick, heiress to the Phenwick wealth, and to the Phenwick curse. But as she passed the borderline between childhood and young womanhood, she felt a strange and sinister force stirring within her - and then she learned the nightmare truth. Hesitantly, those close to her told her that she was subject to strange fits that transformed her from an innocent girl into an abandoned creature of unspeakable desires. And desperately, fearfully, Rachel searched for the man who might save her - the man who could resist and overcome the horrifying spirit that possessed her, and not be seduced and destroyed by the deadly weapon of Satan that Rachel's beauty had become...
#6
Susannah, the Righteous
1975
Unearthly Beauty and Unholy Power Spellbound, Susannah Phenwick stared at the fabulous sapphire known as the Raja Eye. Stolen from a sacred Indian temple of the occult, transported over the seas by a man who had died cursing the day he had seen it, now the Raja Eye was Susannah's for good or for ill. Already its strange, pulsating glow was penetrating her mind, passionately coloring her every thought, her every feeling. Already no goal seemed beyond her strength, no desire beyond her reach. Did she possess the eerie power of this legendary stone - or did it possess her? Susannah was beyond knowing or caring. The drama that had begun in a ravished temple tens of thousands of miles away was moving twoard its shattering climax within her....
#7
Rebecca, the Mysterious
1975
Bewitching Rebecca Phenwick's young life had been scarred by a brutal abduction by a runaway slave, and her loving father and strangely hostile mother agreed on one thing; Rebecca should go to the old family mansion of Phenwick House to escape the memories of the harm done to her.
#8
Joanne, the Unpredictable
1976
Joanne was the most stunningly beautiful and dangerously willful of all the Phenwick women. Even before she reached the age of twenty, she knew how to be all things to all men in order to turn them into puppets of her desire. And from the moment she arrived at Merrihew Manor, the ancestral Phenwick family estate in England, she began to cast her spell over everyone from her elegant, aristocratic cousin, to the handsome, virile master of the neighboring property, to the worldly, irresistibly charming man of the theater who was visiting from London. Life at Merrihew Manor was a whirling, intoxicating masked ball of romance for Joanne - until she realized the occult horror that ruled this ancient place, and felt the tightening embrace of a satanic force that neither her beauty nor her guile could disarm or deceive...
#9
Olivia, the Tormented
1972
The ghostly spirit of Augusta Phenwick predicted that the future bride of handsome, virile Joshua Phenwick would be named Olivia - but now Joshua was forced to choose between three incredibly tempting women who bore that name. One was lovely, aristocratic Olivia Loring. One was the captivating actress, Olivia Pritchard. And one was the breathtaking Italian noblewoman, Olivia di Luca. One of these women would make marriage a paradise. One would make it a hell. One could well turn it into a grave. But until the terrifying night in an ancient English manor when their true natures were unmasked, each was a creature of menacing mystery, as against a glittering background of high society and satanic intrigue, the eeriest and most spellbinding chapter of the Phenwick saga mounted to its shattering climax ...
#10
Harriet, the Haunted
1976
Harriet, the haunted (The saga of the Phenwick women) [Jan 01, 1976] Kimbrough, Katheryn
Authors
Kimbrough Katheryn
Author · 1 book
Katheryn Kimbrough
Author · 38 books
Saga of the Phenwick Women
Series ·
39
books · 1972-2025
By
Kimbrough Katheryn
,
Katheryn Kimbrough
#11
Nancy, the Daring
1976
Softcover
#12
Marcia, The Innocent
1976
Lovely young Marcia Wing felt as if she had been rescued from infernal darkness to emerge into heavenly light when she was adopted by the Phenwicks. The splendor of Merrihew Maonor, the glowing kindness and dazzling beauty of her foster mother, Susannah Phenwick, all seemed a world removed from the horrible squalor and base passions that had surrounded Marcia and her younger brother as helpless orphans. Little did Marcia suspect that in her new home and among her new family lurked greater dangers than she had ever known. The ghost of her own past joined forces with the phantom specter that haunted the Phenwick clan to fill her with nightmare terror. Evil hungered for her body and soul, and Marcia, the Innocent, had no ally as she fought the strength of her satanic adversary and the weakness within her own self to survive and to triumph as the most cruelly imperiled and indomitably courageous of all the Phenwick women...
#13
Kate, the Curious
1976
The world knew Kate Phenwick as a ravishingly beautiful young woman. But secretly Kate suspected there was more to herself than anyone around her imagined, or than she dared confess even to those she loved. Within her Kate felt the spirits of the dead stirring and struggling for her soul. In her dreams she moved beyond the grave to envision scenes and dramas that both filled her with fear and lured her to press ever deeper into the dark unknown. From one great Phenwick mansion to another she moved on the trail of the mystery that bewildered her, and the shadowy fate that beckoned to her. Then, in the arms of a handsome stranger from a distant place, she found herself fat last on the threshold of the truth in all its terror - a truth to be discovered only by her surrender to the ultimate possession....
#14
Ilene, The Superstitious
1977
#15
Millijoy, The Determined
1977
sought after series
#16
Barbara, The Valiant
2025
#17
Ruth the Unsuspecting
1977
Ruth, the Unsuspecting is one of the spellbinding novels in the greatest series of gothic romances ever conceived. You won't want to miss the others, all exclusively in Popular Library editions. When incredibly lovely young Ruth Eldridge came to Boston to be guest of the proud and passionate Phenwick clan, she little suspected the strange, terror-haunted labyrinth she was entering. But all too soon, she learned what emotions seethed beneath the masks of respectability that the Phenwicks wore, and what evil lurked behind the ease and elegance of their lives. The Phenwicks were bitterly divided now, brother against sister, husband against wife, as illicit love made a mockery of all morality, and jealousy and greed poisoned every blood tie. Ruth was welcomed into this family circle with open arms - only to be held fast in the embrace of a Phenwick man who offered her only betrayal, and plunged into a nightmare that made her the most defenseless and endangered of all the Phenwick women...
#18
Ophelia, the Anxious
1977
An abandoned southern mansion on an isolated island became a place of peril for lovely young Ophelia Phenwick. Cast up by shipwreck on those strange and sinister shores, Ophelia soon learned how little she could trust her safety in the hands of the three man marooned with her. One of them was handsome and aristocratic, another seemingly gentle and kind, the third unashamedly flaunting his animal-like strengh and brutal desires. But different as these men were, all were joined in an unholy alliance that made Ophelia their prisoner and their prey. And as the ruins of the plantation yielded up their ghostly secrets, Ophelia suddenly found herself trapped between the flames of fearful passion and the hungering fires of hell…
#19
Dorothy, the Terrified
1977
The violence of the Civil War seemed remote from the lush and isolated Southern plantation that was beautiful Dorothy Wilkes' home. The shadows of human evil seemed totally alien to her sunlit world of gracious living and courtly love. But Dorothy's dreamlike existence swiftly turned into a nightmare of doubt and fear when a handsome stranger bearing the family name of Phenwick led her along a path of forbidden desire and horrifying revelation. What mysterious mission had brought this man here, and what secret motives had he for bending Dorothy to his iron will? Where did the strange visions that shimmered in Dorothy's mind come from, and what was the message from beyond the grave that she desperately struggled to decipher? Dorothy was a Phenwick woman now—granted the uncanny powers of the female Phenwicks, and branded by their undying curse...
#20
Ann, the Gentle
1978
Beautiful young Ann Ornby had been marked from birth to be a Phenwick woman - but now unexpected desire had risen like a wall of flame across the path of her destiny.
#21
Nellie, The Obvious
1978
#22
Isabelle, The Frantic
1978
Since the mysterious death of Elena, her identical twin, beautiful young Isabelle Phenwick felt herself becoming two very different woman, one the proper young lady and the other a ruthless wanton driven by animal passion.
#23
Evelyn, The Ambitious
1978
#24
Louise, the Restless
1978
#25
Polly, The Worried
1979
One of the spellbinding novels in the great series of gothic romances conceived by Katheryn Kimbrough. Part of a vintage series on CBS television. For many women the Phenwick name seemed a blessing worth any sacrifice. But for lovely Polly Phenwick, it was a curse she would do anything to escape. For every man Polly loved died a violent death!!!!
#26
Yvonne, The Confident
1979
Yvonne Sinclair was a young woman who knew what she wanted - and was willing to use every bit of her stunning beauty, every ounce of her startling inner strenghth...to become a Phenwick woman.
#27
Joyce, the Beloved
1979
To know young and innocent Joyce Calder was to love her - and to love her was to risk agony and even death.
#28
Augusta, the Second
1979
Young and vibrant, the second Augusta was eager to test the powers of her beauty and brains, and hungry for all that life and love could offer. Never had there been a more fiery Phenwick woman that the new Augusta- or one threatened by so fearfully fiendish a foe. Thank you for reading books.
#29
Carol, the Pursued
1979
1979 paperback.
#30
Katherine, the Returned
1980
Augusta Phenwick had been the first and foremost of the Phenwick women, founding a line of females driven by passion and drawn by destiny to dangerous loves and unpredictable fates. Now Augusta was long departed from the world of the living—or was she?
#31
Peggy, the Concerned
1980
number #31 saga of Phenwick Women
#32
Olga, the Disillusioned
1980
Book by Katheryn Kimbrough
#33
Phyllis, the Cautious
1980
Book by Kimbrough, Katheryn
#34
Ursala, the Proud
1980
Book by Kimbrough, Katheryn
#35
Letitia, the Dreamer
1981
Her parents had died when she was young, and Letty lived with her grandfather in a decaying Southern mansion, doing chores, attending ballet class, and dancing with her friend, Jeremiah. Although Letty was blind to the color of Jeremiah's skin, others were not. Wrongly suspected of an illicit relationship, wheter they were befriended by Letty's cousins. They they continued on to Europe, where they could be free to pursue their careers in the ballet. For Jeremiah, success seems assured. But for Letty, the struggle to the top of the dance world promises to be long and arduous. And now there is a young man competing with her career, forcing Letty to choose between her one great love, dancing, and her destiny as a Phenwick woman.
#36
Alexandria, the Ambivalent
1981
Exotic beauty Alexandria Muzakova had pledged her body and soul to the ballet. Then she found herself a pawn in a dangerous game of international intrigue
#37
Romula, the Dedicated
1981
From the moment lovely Romula Holtzer set eyes on Frederick von Klootz, she ahd loved him. But the war took him away from her, and she went on to marry a man of wealth and title. When her marriage was ended by a fatal accident, Romula was called on to serve Germany as a spy. her first contact was Frederick, the tragfic victim of his war experiences. He was not the man she remembered, but even as Romula tried again to love him, destiny overtooke them a second time, Frederick disappeared, the pawn in a sadistic plot. And Romula's mission was discovered. With no one to turn to, she was forced to summon up every ounce of courage and strength within her. For even as fate promised her something very special Romula was being stalked by a madman bent on revenge....
#38
Laura, the Imperiled
1981
Lovely Laura Stinson trembled as she hung up the phone. An attempt had already been made on her life-a life just beginning to blossom into happiness. Young Laura had just taken a position as companion to a wealthy widow, but the kindly old woman soon died, leaving Laura nothing of her estate but the stewardship of a fledgling ballet company. A company that was sponsoring the famous ballerinas Letitia and Alexandria Phenwick
#40
Belinda, the Impatient
1982
When Oliver Phenwick travels to Bavaria to dispose of the castle he has inherited, he and his group fall prey to a manical killer. Undaunted, Oliver remains determined to trap the anonymous culprit who keeps threatening his wife, Letita. So he hires the pretty young Belinda to impersonate her. But Oliver has no idea that Belinda's life will soon be endangered by someone in their midst. Nor does he know that she will be taken hostage at the will of an evil hypnotist... (from the back cover)
