aristocracy (social class)

Seventeen-year-old Imogene Rockford turned away from her family and their English country manor after her parents' death, but assumes her duty as the new Duchess of Wickersham despite threats and strange occurrences.

First published in 1929, Faulkner created his "heart's darling," the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers?the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin and the monstrous Jason.

The death of Lord Darracott's oldest son leaves him with no choice but to summon the next heir, his derelict brother's son Hugo, to Kent, and presuming Hugo will be coarse and unrefined, decides--without the two of them ever having met--to marry him off to his granddaughter Anthea.

In a seaside New England town in the 1920s, twelve-year-old Clare finds refuge from the cruelty of her society friends in a mysterious glass house inhabited by Jack, a charming and playful ghost who cannot remember his real name or how he died.

Liza Campbell recounts her childhood growing up in renowned Cawdor Castle, the setting for Shakespeare's "Macbeth", revealing how the fairytale setting hid a dark history of violence and madness that shaped Liza and her brothers and sisters throughout their lives.

Penelope Deveraux is sent to India to let the scandal surrounding her hasty marriage die down and is plunged into a strange world of intrigue and danger where the only person Penelope can trust is not her husband, but the dashing Alex Reid.

In London in 1815, sixteen-year-old Lady Emily Southwell, who aspires to be an artist, enlists the aid of her three best friends from the Barnsley School for Young Ladies, in helping her out of an unwanted betrothal to a man she suspects of evil intentions, even as she is drawn to a mysterious stranger.