The Shadows of Whitewood Hall
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There is something deeper and darker than even the shadows leering in the new home of Pearl Kirkwood. She is unsure if even the devastatingly handsome Desmond Thornecrofte can save her from the Shadows of Whitewood Hall.
Pearl enters a new life shrouded in darkness and encounters her new guardian, Adeline Pimms, a shut-in poet who is desperately in love with a younger man who introduces himself as the tragic Desmond Thornecrofte. He is even more devastatingly handsome because Pearl cannot have him.
What Pearl finds behind the closed doors of Whitewood Hall plunges her into a centuries-old mystery and forces her to face her feelings and family history.
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