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Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The Whitaker family Connecticut mansion, Muses by the Sea, has always been a haven for artists, a hotbed of creativity, extravagances, and the occasional scandal. Art patrons for generations, the Whitaker's supported strangers but drained the life out of each other. Now, after being estranged for years, four generations of Whitaker women find themselves once again at The Muses. Leo, the Whitaker matriarch, lives in the rambling mansion crammed with...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"1980: Beth Soames is fourteen years old when a kind couple finds her playing the violin at her orphanage's yearly fund-raiser. The Averills take her home with them to Raven Hall, a rambling manor on the Norfolk coast. There she runs wild with their daughter, Nina, and they become fast friends. At times, Beth even dreams she's truly part of the family...until she's asked to take part in what seems like a harmless game--and nothing is ever the same....
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"On the first snowy night of winter, Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope sets off for her home in the hills. Though the road is familiar, she misses a turning and soon becomes lost and disorientated. A car has skidded off the narrow road in front of her, its door left open, and she stops to help. There is no driver to be seen, so Vera assumes that the owner has gone to find help. But a cry calls her back: a toddler is strapped in the back seat. Vera...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Isa Brixton and her new friend Alexa, who is a skilled photographer, start an Instagram account featuring portraits of Isa in the crumbling mansion she now calls home, and soon the rising numbers of Isa's followers online and at school match the growing darkness in her personality.
When Izzy is dragged from New York City to a tiny town for her parents' new job, the only silver lining is the gorgeous old mansion they moved into. It is the former home...
Author
Series
Publisher
[Jean Grainger?]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Three sisters, the three men that love them, and a house that could consume them all. Assuming their roles as the new Lord and Lady Kenefick and returning to Robinswood with the plan to drag it back from the brink of dereliction, is taking its toll on Kate and Sam. With a young family to raise, a very limited budget and only Kate's parents to help, the task seems insurmountable. Kate's eldest sister Eve and her husband Bartley have found happiness...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Historical fiction novel set in Newport, Rhode Island across multiple decades, from bestselling author trio"--
A novel of money and secrets set among the famous summer mansions of Newport, Rhode Island, spanning over a century from the Gilded Age to the present day.
7) Cari Mora
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Twenty-five million dollars in cartel gold lies hidden beneath a mansion on the Miami Beach waterfront. Ruthless men have tracked it for years. Leading the pack is Hans-Peter Schneider. Driven by unspeakable appetites, he makes a living fleshing out the violent fantasies of other, richer men. Cari Mora, caretaker of the house, has escaped from the violence in her native country. She stays in Miami on a wobbly Temporary Protected Status, subject to...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter she's been waiting for her entire life. She rips it open with one driving thought: I am finally going to know who I am. She soon learns not only the identity of her birth parents, but also that she is the sole inheritor of their abandoned mansion on the banks of the Thames in London's fashionable Chelsea neighborhood, worth millions. Everything in Libby's...