Arriving at the mansion Kirkland Revels as the bride of Gabriel Rockwell, Catherine receives a very frosty welcome from his family. She soon learns that this mansion, standing at the edge of the Yorkshire moors, has many secrets to hide.
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Arriving at the mansion Kirkland Revels as the bride of Gabriel Rockwell, Catherine receives a very frosty welcome from his family. She soon learns that this mansion, standing at the edge of the Yorkshire moors, has many secrets to hide.
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Seller's Description:
Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Previous Dealer, Owner Markings; Moderate Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Moderately Chipped; Heavy Sticker Pull to Front Cover; Spine Moderately Cocked; Light Moisture Damage (Staining); Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. SYNOPSIS: Kirkland Revels loomed high above the wild and eerie Yorkshire moors like a brooding stone fortress...To an innocent young bride like Catherine, the huge ancestral mansion seemed magnificently romantic...She did not know then of the terrible secrets imprisoned behind its massive walls or that from the moment she entered her new home she had crossed a threshold of terror...-and-The story is told by Catherine Corder, a young girl in her late teens just back from finishing school at Dijon. While out riding near her Yorkshire home she meets a young man, Gabriel Rockwell, son of a neighbouring baronet, who lives in a great mansion on the moors, Kirkland Revels. They fall immediately in love and marry, Gabriel taking his bride to live in the Revels. Few could have met with so chilly a reception as Catherine when reluctantly she was received by the extraordinary Rockwell family. Slowly, day by day and night by night, she sensed that she was in the grip of something mysterious, something evil-and the chill forefinger of fear was pressing on her...