{"title":"The Clara Vale Gothic Mysteries","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Clara Vale Gothic Mysteries\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSome houses shelter the living. Others refuse to release the dead.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eClara Vale has built her career uncovering the forgotten histories of old houses, ruined estates and families who would prefer their secrets to remain safely buried. Intelligent, independent and troubled by losses of her own, she knows that every building preserves traces of those who lived within it. A concealed room, an altered portrait or a name scratched from a family record can reveal more than any ghost story.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut the places Clara investigates are never merely old.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBehind locked doors and shuttered windows, she encounters disputed inheritances, unexplained disappearances, forbidden romances and crimes concealed beneath generations of respectable silence. There are footsteps in empty corridors, voices behind sealed walls and houses that appear to remember their former inhabitants. Whether these disturbances are supernatural or carefully manufactured by the living is something Clara must discover before the past claims another victim.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBlending atmospheric mystery, psychological suspense and traditional Gothic unease, the Clara Vale Gothic Mysteries travel through crumbling country houses, isolated coastal manors, forgotten villages and estates where beauty has become inseparable from decay. Each novel presents a complete mystery while gradually revealing Clara’s own history—and the disturbing truth about why certain houses seem to recognise her.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePerfect for readers who enjoy intelligent heroines, family secrets, haunted architecture, slow-burning suspense and mysteries in which the greatest danger may not be the ghost, but the person determined to keep it hidden.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-house-that-kept-her-name","title":"The House That Kept Her Name","description":"\u003cp class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003eSome names refuse to stay buried.\u003cspan class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYorkshire, 1897.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eClara Vale is a twenty-eight-year-old probate clerk accustomed to the lies respectable families tell after a death. When her solicitor uncle sends her to catalogue the estate of the reclusive Honoria Wychgrave, Clara expects disputed property, missing documents and resentful relatives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe does not expect a house waiting for a woman who vanished forty years ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEleanor Wychgrave’s bedroom is prepared every evening. Her dresses remain in the wardrobe. Fresh flowers appear beside her bed. Throughout the manor, mirrors have been turned towards the doors—as though the household expects someone to enter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eClara dismisses the stories of Eleanor’s ghost until she finds her name recorded among the dead woman’s possessions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTrapped at Wychgrave Hall by relentless rain, Clara begins investigating the disappearance. The family records have been altered, a portrait has been painted over and someone is using the hidden passages behind the bedrooms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe closer Clara comes to the truth, the more dangerous the house becomes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor Wychgrave Hall has not merely remembered Eleanor; it has been waiting for Clara.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt has been waiting for Clara.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe House That Kept Her Name is an atmospheric Victorian Gothic mystery of lost daughters, stolen identities, forbidden rooms and a family determined to keep its darkest secret out of the light.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Robs Books","offers":[{"title":"PDF","offer_id":57927003046232,"sku":null,"price":5.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"ePub","offer_id":57927003079000,"sku":null,"price":5.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Flip Book","offer_id":57927003111768,"sku":null,"price":5.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0929\/9768\/1496\/files\/the-house-that-kept-her-name-5168182.png?v=1788282616"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0929\/9768\/1496\/collections\/Cover2-1.png?v=1788281462","url":"https:\/\/robsbooks.com.co\/collections\/the-clara-vale-gothic-mysteries.oembed","provider":"Robs Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}