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Devil May Care (1977)

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                                                                                                                                                   Listening: Southern Nights When Ellie takes on the job of housesitting for her beloved Aunt Kate in her massive Virginian mansion, it simply seems like getting some quiet time that she might use to reassess her engagement. What she gets are a series of increasingly eerie ghostly incidents, an impudent yard boy, and a host of irritating neighbors who all seem intent on protecting their family legacies from the old rumors her 'ghosts' are stirring up. When things take a violent tur...

Greygallows (1972)

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Listening: Nights in White Satin Orphaned young heiress Lucy Cartwright finds herself maneuvered into marriage with the mysterious  Baron Clare before she has time to think. Spirited off to his Yorkshire estate, ominously called Greygallows by his oppressed villagers, she finds his distant attitude towards her puzzling...but not more than the family ghost who has begun to stalk her steps. Fearful, Lucy must marshal her wits and defy the strictures of society she has tamely followed until now, for it's not just her sanity that's at risk...it might be her life.

Patriot's Dream (1976)

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Listening: Show Me the Way Disillusioned by the struggle of teaching uninterested high-school students, twenty-three year old Jan Wilde takes the bicentennial summer off to recover and redirect, spending it with her elderly aunt and uncle in their historic Williamsburg home. While a number of men around her seem interested in providing the new path she's looking for, the real hero of her dreams turns out to be just that...a figment of her dreams. Or are they? As her nightly dreams of Revolutionary era Williamsburg and the former inhabitants of the family home grow more compelling and vivid, Jan begins to lose interest in the modern day. Will she lose herself in past and the mystery of the young Revolutionary hero whose history she can't pin down, or will someone find a way to save her from the history she's beginning to drown in?