Affiliate links — we may earn a small commission, at no extra cost to you. Learn more
The Master of Blacktower
Barbara Michaels
A scarred, bitter Scottish lord harbours deadly secrets — and his new governess is determined to uncover them.
Description
Damaris Gordon shuddered at the thought of working for the cruel and bitter Master of Blacktower—but her father's death left her no choice. Suddenly her fate—her life itself—was in the black silk-gloved hands of Gavin Hamilton, a man scarred and tortured by an unspoken past, whose mocking laughter echoes through his ancient Scottish estate. Damaris has heard the whispers that accuse Gavin Hamilton of his wife's death and his young daughter's crippling injury. But the pain and sadness barely hidden behind his blazing dark stare touch Damaris deeply—and a courageous heart is luring her to the estate's topmost tower in search of his dangerous secrets.
Books like this
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
A plain governess falls for her brooding employer — but Thornfield Hall hides a devastating secret.
8 tropes in common
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier
A shy new bride discovers her husband's first wife may never truly be gone — and Manderley holds dark secrets.
8 tropes in common
Greygallows
Barbara Michaels
A naive young woman marries a mysterious baron and finds his grand estate holds deadly secrets she may not survive.
8 tropes in common
Wings of the Falcon
Barbara Michaels
Adrift among hostile Italian relatives, Francesca's only hope is a masked horseman known only as the Falcon.
6 tropes in common
The Dancing Floor
Barbara Michaels
A woman braves a forbidden manor's secrets — and its brooding owner — in search of a legendary English garden.
6 tropes in common
The Wizard's Daughter
Barbara Michaels
A Victorian orphan with second sight is hired to summon her dead father — and uncovers deadly secrets.
5 tropes in common
Sons of the Wolf
Barbara Michaels
Two young women arrive at a brooding estate on the moors — where one son is good, one is evil, and darkness is everywher
6 tropes in common
Wait for What Will Come
Barbara Michaels
A woman inherits a cursed Cornish mansion — and can't escape the ancestral fate closing in around her.
5 tropes in common
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
V.E. Schwab
Cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets, Addie LaRue finds the one man who remembers her name.
5 tropes in common
House of Many Shadows
Barbara Michaels
A woman haunted by visions retreats to a remote old house — where the ghosts turn out to be very real.
5 tropes in common
Witch
Barbara Michaels
A woman's hard-won independence is shattered when supernatural terror invades her isolated home.
5 tropes in common
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
A fierce, doomed love between a foundling and a gentleman's daughter tears two families apart across generations.
4 tropes in common
Be Buried in the Rain
Barbara Michaels
A medical student returns to her haunted childhood plantation — where dark family secrets refuse to stay buried.
3 tropes in common
Into the Darkness
Barbara Michaels
Inheriting a share of her grandfather's antique jewelry shop, Meg finds herself co-owner with a dangerously attractive s
5 tropes in common
The Cruel Dark
Bea Northwick · The Cruel Dark #1
A haunted woman takes a job with a brooding widowed professor — and his crumbling estate holds darker secrets than eithe
10 tropes in common
Houses of Stone
Barbara Michaels
A literary scholar uncovers a mysterious 19th-century manuscript — and finds her own secrets buried within it.
2 tropes in common
Mistress of Mellyn
Victoria Holt
A governess falls for her brooding Cornish employer while dark secrets stir in the mansion's shadows.
10 tropes in common
Black Amber
Phyllis A. Whitney
An American woman goes undercover in Istanbul and falls for the brooding artist hiding dark secrets.
10 tropes in common
Ravenscroft
Dorothy Eden
Rescued from criminals and married to her saviour, Bella finds Ravenscroft haunted by his first wife — and old enemies s
8 tropes in common
House of Shadows
Darcy Coates · House of Shadows #1
Married to a brooding stranger to save her family, Sophie discovers their gothic mansion is haunted — and so is her husb
8 tropes in common