Helena had always been haunted by the dream of the staircase.
It prevents her from forming any real relationship with a man, because who could live up to the haunting, handsome figure that awaits her at the top of the staircase?
When her on-off boyfriend and childhood sweetheart Hal takes Helena on a romantic trip to Paris, he offers her a final ultimatum, and she is suddenly forced to decide between dreams and reality.
But, as her two worlds begin to collide, Helena begins to realise that everything is not as it seems - and that some dreams are nightmares...
Another heart-warming spooky novella from the master of romance Deryn Lake, The Staircase will have you gripped until the very last word.
'With history this colourful and a mystery this baffling, the result is delicious' - Good Book Guide
'Deliciously spook-ridden' - Daily Telegraph
Deryn Lake started to write stories at the age of five, then graduated to novels but destroyed all her early work because, she says, it was hopeless. A chance meeting with one of the Getty family took her to Sutton Place and her first serious novel was born. Deryn was married to a journalist and writer, the late L. F. Lampitt, has two grown-up children, four beautiful and talented grandchildren, and one rather large cat. Deryn has lived near the famous battlefield of 1066 for the past 16 years where she enjoys her life as a woman about town. She is also the author of Fortune's Soldier, Sutton Place, To Sleep No More, The King's Women and Pour The Dark Wine.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
It prevents her from forming any real relationship with a man, because who could live up to the haunting, handsome figure that awaits her at the top of the staircase?
When her on-off boyfriend and childhood sweetheart Hal takes Helena on a romantic trip to Paris, he offers her a final ultimatum, and she is suddenly forced to decide between dreams and reality.
But, as her two worlds begin to collide, Helena begins to realise that everything is not as it seems - and that some dreams are nightmares...
Another heart-warming spooky novella from the master of romance Deryn Lake, The Staircase will have you gripped until the very last word.
'With history this colourful and a mystery this baffling, the result is delicious' - Good Book Guide
'Deliciously spook-ridden' - Daily Telegraph
Deryn Lake started to write stories at the age of five, then graduated to novels but destroyed all her early work because, she says, it was hopeless. A chance meeting with one of the Getty family took her to Sutton Place and her first serious novel was born. Deryn was married to a journalist and writer, the late L. F. Lampitt, has two grown-up children, four beautiful and talented grandchildren, and one rather large cat. Deryn has lived near the famous battlefield of 1066 for the past 16 years where she enjoys her life as a woman about town. She is also the author of Fortune's Soldier, Sutton Place, To Sleep No More, The King's Women and Pour The Dark Wine.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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