It’s easy to see why summer is the most popular season for weddings. The verdant fields, lush and ripe, seem to explode in the countryside as cicadas murmur their sweet and endless song; sunshine kisses bare shoulders and romance fills the air while old lovers, new lovers, and would-be lovers twirl under bright stars; killers lurk in wait, stalking young brides to be.
What? Oh, that last one? I guess we’ve been reading too much Dorothy Eden these days as we get ready for the digital reissue of sixteen of her classic books this month. And if you, like us, are a little worn out from the annual hubbub of June nuptials,Sinister Weddings, our new ebook bundle of three of Eden’s novels, is just the thing to cure you of your summer wedding fatigue.
This special three-in-one ebook contains Bride by Candlelight (originally published in 1954), Cat’s Prey (1952), and Bridge of Fear (1961). Each story centers on an impending wedding—yet amid the cheerful fanfare, nothing is exactly as it seems. Set in the atmospheric terrain of the New Zealand and Australian countryside, this bundle showcases Eden’s masterful storytelling; each tale is a brilliant example of the Gothic romance genre.
In Bride by Candlelight,Julia Paget has just arrived at the New Zealand sheep-farming estate of her betrothed. However, after receiving a number of ominous anonymous notes, she begins to doubt that her fiancé is really who he says he is.
In Cat’s Prey, Antonia Webb is a guest at her cousin’s wedding in a remote seaside resort in New Zealand. Yet evil seems to lurk at every corner. Will a handsome solicitor’s warning be enough to protect her?
In Bridge of Fear, Abby Fearon arrives in the Australian outback to find her new husband irrevocably changed; he’s as foreign as the strange and wild land she now calls home. Is Abby paranoid—or is someone trying to kill her?
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