CL Skelton and his wife Alison Scott Skelton wrote Gothic novels together under the name of Abigail Clements.
Mistress of the Moor: A Gripping Gothic Romance Mystery
They asked for her help. But does one of them want her dead?
1909. When Emma Waldron is summoned to her childhood home on the Yorkshire moors she faces an unexpected and mysterious enemy. Among the warm welcomes she receives at Goatlands, who is hiding secret and deadly intentions?
Emma’s beloved Uncle Joshua needs her help with an ambitious plan. She meets his young colleague, the insufferably arrogant, but irresistibly handsome, Roger Atwood.
A series of strange events causes Emma concern. Then she almost dies in an “accident” and is forced to accept that someone means her real harm.
Roger proves himself to be an ally in a time of crisis. But then Emma glimpses an apparent dark side to him. Can she trust him, or should she turn to her uncle, or cousin Henry for help?
Her uncertainty is made all the worse by her undeniable attraction to Roger. Is he, under all his charms, her enemy? Or is it, as others hint, her own disintegrating mind?
Can a pledge of love save her from the forces of darkness?
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Christabel’s Room: A Spellbinding Victorian Gothic Romance
1890s. Elspeth Martin leaves London to become a governess at the remote Scottish home of her godfather, Sir Iain Grant. But the mansion is haunted by the memories of his wife, the glamorous Lady Christabel, who fell from the nearby cliffs to her death.
Fifteen-year-old Rowena soon makes it clear to Elspeth that she has no need of a governess. She is more interested in their charming houseguest, Roderick Grant-Davies.
When Elspeth nearly drowns she wonders if it was a schoolgirl prank gone wrong, or something more sinister. She is saved by the handsome Duncan MacKenzie and an immediate bond is formed between them.
Elspeth discovers a hidden diary and learns the uncomfortable truth about Lady Christabel, placing her in deadly danger. Then she finds herself in a race against time to stop a disastrous runaway marriage.
Caught in a web of secrets and threatened by mysterious acts of violence, will a pledge of love be enough to protect Elspeth from the forces of darkness closing around her, and from the dark waters of the Loch, far below?
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Highland Fire: captivating romantic suspense full of twists
In a world of divided loyalties can she even trust the man she loves?
1976. New Yorker Carrie Reilly travels to the Scottish Highlands in search of a new life. But from the moment she arrives she becomes a target for murder.
Carries takes a job as secretary to Irish-American whisky importer Dominic O’Brady. He is kind and thoughtful, but a darker side lurks just beneath the surface. Despite this, Carrie cannot resist her growing attraction to him.
One evening on a remote road, a terrified young woman appears, carrying a child. She thrusts the sleeping infant into Carrie’s arms, promises to return, and flees into the night. The next day the woman is found dead.
There are other strange happenings in the small Highland community of Sron Ban. What are the mysterious lights on the loch at night by the hippie commune? Did someone deliberately try to shoot Carrie? What odd partnership keeps Dominic and his cruel employee Kevin McGuire together – two men who clearly despise each other?
Then a newcomer appears at the commune. Seumas Cameron; tall, blond and charming; reminds Carrie painfully of her dead husband, Danny. But has the light-hearted hippy artist got secrets of his own? And what will they mean for Carrie, and all at Sron Ban?
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The Sea Harrower: A Scottish Highlander Historical Romance
Scotland, 1752. A handsome but dangerous stranger, a woman with divided loyalties, and a perilous mission across the seas for their prince …
Marsali Mackinnon‘s family have lost everything after the defeat at Culloden. Her beloved Rory MacLeod is missing since the battle, his fate unknown.
When Marsali rescues a half-drowned sailor, her act of kindness has far-reaching consequences. She is drawn into a hazardous journey by sea and land with the irresistible Antoine Sainte Marie-Ross.
But only Marsali knows that she has been forced by an English soldier into a bitter bargain: her father’s life or that of her prince.
Then in a shocking twist of fate she is forced to make another bitter choice. Will it lead to happiness and freedom, or heartbreak and death?