Susan Howatch

Sequel to: 'Mystical Paths' (4076). When Charles Ashworth, the Bishop of Starbridge, is confronted with a catastrophe, which tears his life apart he has to fight a complete breakdown and rebuild his private and professional life.

Clare Sullivan obeys a desperate summons from her sister Gina and flies from her home in America to Paris. But when she arrives, there is no sign of her. Gina's trail leads Claire to London and to Garth Cooper - a boyfriend of Gina's - who seems to have a secret to hide. As time passes she can't help feeling something sinister is going on.

There were two subjects which lonely widower Edward de Salis never discussed: his dead wife and his family home in Ireland, 'matchless Cashelmara'. So when he meets Marguerite, a bright young American with whom he can talk freely about both, he is able to love again and takes her back to Ireland as his wife.

But Marguerite soon discovers that married life is not what she expected, and that she has married into a troubled family bitterly divided by love and hatred. Cashelmara becomes the curse of three generations as they play out their fates in a spellbinding drama, which moves inexorably towards murder and retribution.

When Mark Castallack sees his longed-for inheritance Penmarric, a gothic mansion on the bleak cliffs of Cornwall, and the mysterious, mesmerising Janna, he knows that he will make them his and nothing will stand in his way. Yet when Mark realizes his dreams, Penmarric only brings a legacy of conflict, jealousy, infidelity and betrayal.

Sequel to 'Ultimate Prizes' (2823); Venetia becomes involved with her friend’s father, a married clergyman, whose admiration spirals out of control into an obsessive love. He begins to take risks and Venetia finds herself trapped in a web of love and lies.

Robert Godwin's tumultuous ride on the Wheel of Fortune begins with his passion for his sensual cousin Ginevra, as they waltz to 'The Blue Danube' beneath the chandeliers at Oxmoon, his beloved family home in Wales. As Robert discovers, his rational, well-ordered mind will be forever altered by his obsession for Ginevra, and his destiny will be forever linked to Oxmoon by the skeletons which lurk in the family closet...

For fifty years, from the sinister summer afternoon of 1913 to the 1960s, the Godwin family are sucked into a maelstrom of passion, disorder, madness and murder. Fortunes rise and fall in this sweeping, compulsive tale, until the Wheel of Fortune finally comes full circle.