Madeleine Brent

Moonraker's Bride

Golden Urchin

Merlin's Keep

Tregaron's Daughter

When Hannah MacLeod, established independently in Paris, the secrets of her past well hidden, takes pity on an Englishman who has been assaulted, a sinister train of events is set into motion

A Heritage of Shadows

Stranger at Wildings

Beaten and abused by her sadistic husband, Emma Foy runs away from his Jamaican plantation and sails the Caribbean in disguise with her Chinese friend, Daniel

The Long Masquerade

Peter (Book Reviews) O'Donnell

In 1897 a small ship sails the Caribbean, trading between the islands. It is the home of a man and girl, runaways wanted for murder and who live in fear of arrest. Casey had once been Emma Delaney, wife of Oliver Foy and mistress of Diablo Hall, one of Jamaica's great houses. A devil had dwelt within Diablo Hall, a devil who meant to break her to his will. When Emma escapes that sinister marriage she wanders across the seas learning the skills that she now depends on. Her life as Casey comes to an end when she is brought penniless to England, where she must face the man who possesses the “evil eye,” and when she finds love it brings new danger and an agonizing choice.

Cadi Tregaron is the 16-year-old daughter of a Cornish fisherman who is happy with her life but troubled by a recurring dream--of a great house standing in water and of the faceless man who waits for her there. When Cadi is cruelly orphaned she is taken into a wealthy family but she is too self-reliant to be spoiled by this change in fortune, and perhaps too self-reliant for her own good. In her new life at Meadhaven she finds mystery, danger, and a hidden enemy. She must uncover this enemy. Is it the wayward Richard Morton, the gray-eyed stranger who is always watching? Or Lucian Farrel, whose face now haunts her dreams? When Cadi finds that the house standing in water of her dream is a reality she discovers that she is bound to it by ancestry. As she comes to know heartbreak and grief, Cadi must learn the terrifying truth about her past to reveal the hidden enemy who threatens her life.

In 1890 Hannah McLeod, an 18 year-old English girl, is living in Paris where she works at a small restaurant. Only her neighbour, Toby Kent, a struggling artist, knows the strange and horrifying secret that makes her afraid to return to England. Then one night, Hannah unwittingly becomes entangled in circumstances that force her to flee to England and become French tutor in the household of a Mr. Sebastian Ryder. But why should Mr. Ryder want to employ her? Does he know something about the secrets in her past? As the tale unfolds, carrying her to Mexico and back again to Paris, Hannah is caught up in a struggle between two men of great wealth and power - a struggle which threatens her life - before the final discovery of where her happiness lies.

Mitji had lived with the Aboriginal tribe for as long as she could remember. With her white skin, thin nose and red hair, she does not look like the rest of the tribe but she has learnt their skills of survival in the arid desert. As she nears womanhood, her oddness has made her an outcast and she must leave her people. She goes on a walkabout, in search of the walypalya, the tribe with red hair and white skin like her own, who had come from the great waters. Perhaps they would receive her kindly and let her stay with them. On her wanderings she comes upon a white man, lying half - dead in the blazing heat, and nurses him back to health. Together they made their way to his home, and Mitji becomes Meg and has to learn to wear clothes, to sleep in a bed, to sit on a chair - and to speak English. Gradually, she came to understand that she was herself one of the walypalya, a subject of Mitjiquin, Elder of Elders of all the white tribes - Queen Victoria. Meg has barely started her journey towards her true origins. In the world of the walypalya, there are new dangers and Meg must confront the terrors of a long sea voyage before she can find happiness on the other side of the world. Only the knowledge that she has learnt from her Aboriginal tribe can guarantee her survival and that of her friends.

Golden Urchin (Large Print 16pt)

When eighteen year-old Chantal first encounters the half-starved tramp who calls himself Martin, she is touring Hungary with a circus company as one of the 'Flying Gallettis', and prefers to forget every detail of her unhappy early years in faraway England. But a train of events is started which will bring her inevitably back to her destiny and to the unravelling of many mysteries that surround her life. Who is this Martin, who speaks like an English gentleman and looks like a tinker? Why is he in Hungary at all? Whose powerful malice has pursued her since childhood, and why? Who indeed is she? In Chantal Madeleine Brent has created one of her most appealing characters. Red-haired and spirited, her wilfulness and courage win hearts and bring trouble upon her wherever she goes, but although she has driven herself unsparingly to attain a rare skill as a circus artist, her true ambition is to become a doctor (no mean aspiration at the beginning of this century). The story moves from the warm, bustling atmosphere of a travelling circus to the cold correctness of English country house society, and back again to Eastern Europe, before all the complex strands are finally unravelled. Packed with incident and excitement, Kirkby's Changeling represents Madeleine Brent at her very best.

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