The Dead of Haggard Hall

Spirit possession is easy to remedy. Possession of the heart is another matter.Darke of Night, Book 1After vicar's widow and natural medium Barbara Darke loses her respectable teaching position, she reluctantly agrees to become companion to her former pupil Emily, now the bride of young Sir Arthur Haggard.Once settled at Haggard Hall, Barbara finds her friend is beset by ghostly voices and unexplained deaths. In a maelstrom of dark spirits and wicked emotions, Barbara battles to lay Emily's ghosts to rest—both hampered and helped by Arthur's skeptical cousin Patrick, who provokes and attracts her in equal measure.It would be a mistake to trust a secretive, guilt-ridden man suspected of driving his wife to suicide, if not outright murdering her. And it could well be lethal to give in to her own desires, confused as they often are with the lusts of the dead.But Arthur and Emily are in genuine physical danger, and suspicion is falling closer and...