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Authors: Dorothy Eden

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‘Oh, how glad I am about this!’ Fanny cried. ‘You will be able to talk to Nolly and Marcus about their mother. They will have someone to keep her alive for them.’

‘More than one person. My Aunt Martha is longing to have them with her at Heronshall. We will apply for their guardianship, Fanny, and bring them up with our own children.’

Fanny caught her breath, the colour rising in her cheeks.

‘We will live at Darkwater if you wish. It is very lovely. And plenty of lively children about will banish its ghosts, or make them happier ones. But I have a property just as beautiful in the Western Highlands of Scotland. My father used to come back to it after his trips to the East.’

‘You have—decided all this?’

‘Long ago. When I first saw you on the railway station in London. You knew.’

‘Yes, I knew,’ said Fanny, and forgot that she had ever doubted it.

‘Cousin Fanny! Cousin Fanny!’ called the children in their imperious voices.

All at once the windbells were chiming. Or was it the windbells, for no wind stirred. The sound had been remarkably like Ching Mei’s high delightful tinkle of laughter.

About the Author

Dorothy Eden (1912–1982) was the internationally acclaimed author of more than forty bestselling gothic, romantic suspense, and historical novels. Born in New Zealand, where she attended school and worked as a legal secretary, she moved to London in 1954 and continued to write prolifically. Eden’s novels are known for their suspenseful, spellbinding plots, finely drawn characters, authentic historical detail, and often a hint of spookiness. Her novel of pioneer life in Australia,
The Vines of Yarrabee
, spent four months on the
New York Times
bestseller list. Her gothic historical novels
Ravenscroft
,
Darkwater
, and
Winterwood
are considered by critics and readers alike to be classics of the genre.

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 1963 by Dorothy Eden

Cover design by Connie Gabbert

978-1-4804-2999-4

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