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Widowed Hester Prynne, isolated in a new country, seeks comfort in the arms of a lover.

Most of Hawthorne's early writings were magazine stories subsequently collected in books. His second story collection, Mosses from an Old Manse, includes many of his best-known short stories.

The story begins in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, then a Puritan settlement.

Presents four short stories by the 19th century New England writer.

The House of Seven Gables, a fixture in Hawthorne's Salem, serves as the ancestral home of the fictional Pyncheon family--whose distinguished legacy is tainted by pious thievery.

An American psychologist accepts an invitation to her estranged husband's isolated English estate in this suspenseful tale by an Edgar Award-winning author.

A woman investigates the mysterious death of her mother in Santa Fe in this New York Times bestseller by a "master of suspense" (Mary Higgins Clark).

A woman is forced to face the tragedies of the past when she's summoned back to her Colorado home in this novel from "a master of suspense " (Mary Higgins Clark).

The wife of a scientist fights for her marriage-and her husband's sanity-in postwar Japan in this novel by "a superb and gifted storyteller" (Mary Higgins Clark).

A millionaire's Florida estate becomes a sinister trap for his bride in this classic gothic romance from "a superb and gifted storyteller" (Mary Higgins Clark).

A New York designer is reunited with her estranged family in Arizona after her father's murder in this novel of "romantic suspense at its wildest" (Cosmopolitan).

A Manhattan editor investigates her sister's suspicious death in Istanbul in this novel by the New York Times-bestselling "queen of the American gothics" (TheNew York Times).

A bride is swept up in family secrets and the blood diamond trade when she returns to South Africa in this novel by a New York Times-bestselling author.

A governess becomes entangled with a dysfunctional and dangerous family in this novel by a New York Times-bestselling "master of suspense" (Mary Higgins Clark).

A man's death in the Smoky Mountains raises the suspicions of his estranged wife in this suspenseful novel by a New York Times-bestselling author.