Claudette Nicole

“Claudette Nicole” was a pseudonym for author Jon Messmann.

Books by Claudette Nicole

The Secret of Harbor House

Cut off from the world and bound to a man whose charm masks control, Stacy must uncover the truth behind Harbor House before the promise of healing turns fatal—for her.

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Dark Whispers

Passion becomes persuasion, faith becomes control, and love may be the most lethal weapon of all.

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The Claudette Nicole Reader #1: Seven Full Novels

Seven bestselling gothic suspense novels by Claudette Nicole, back in print for the first time since the 1970s. These atmospheric tales of terror, romance, and psychological dread helped define the modern gothic suspense novel and remain gripping, dangerous, and unforgettable.

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Gothic Suspense: 12 Full Novels

TWELVE acclaimed novels -- and one BONUS NOVEL -- of gothic suspense, horror and romance by FOUR masters of the craft in one massive ebook.

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When the Wind Cries

Major Jeffries hires Gail to teach his lovely daughter Amanda to ride on his vast estate in Louisiana. But the horse is virtually a wild stallion. And Amanda is a recently-released mental patient who has not spoken a word for years...not since her mother's extremely sudden death. Meanwhile, Gail is drawn to the attractive, mysterious Victor, Amanda's guitar-playing brother and to Clay, the local doctor's son.

But if that wasn't enough to challenge Gail... there's a killer on the prowl, and she is his defenseless prey.

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The Haunted Heart

Was She The Victim of a Monstrous Vengeance...or Her Own Crazed Fear?

Even as a child, Cathy Atwood was able to predict death. Time and again, she watched helplessly as foretold tragedy struck, her heart swelling with sorrow and guilt. Some people believed she was cursed...or, worse, was a murderer.

Now it's happening again. Cathy senses her husband Brad's impending death...and shortly after they have a big argument, her vision comes true. His family believes she's responsible and she can't shake the sensation that Brad's ghost has come back to kill her.

She's trapped in a nightmare, unable to escape from a horror she doesn't deserve and that she knows, with terrifying certainty, is coming for her.

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Moonwater

Pirie DuChamps fears for her own life, but she can't leave Moonwater, their ancestral home, because of her sister Peely's grave illness...one that causes Peely to see horrific, ghostly reflections of herself and terrifying visions of the future. Most disturbing of all, Peely can see Pirie being brutally murdered. Their housekeeper Valonia believes the visions are real, that Peely is seeing her own "astral double," and won't let anyone but an old bayou doctor of folk medicine treat her. But Pirie wants to get her sister to a real doctor....before someone kills them both.

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House at Hawk's End

Did she come her of her own free will...or was she compelled by an evil force from the dark past?

Sophisticated, beautiful, impetuous Jean Burroughs flees the chaos of the city to find some peace. So she retreats to the old family place at Hawk's End, high on a lonely tip of the Nova Scotia coast.

But from the moment of her arrival, the townspeople hate her... and pressure her to leave. But Jean is stubborn … and proud...and is soon plunged into a nightmare of shadows and violence. She's terrorized by strange accidents, fiery visions on the sea, and the sound of death padding after her in the night. Something weird and evil has been unleashed....and that it's coming for her.

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The Dark Mill

Valery Curtis is hired by an old dowager named Carlotta Van Dyne to go to Verdolet, the family estate in Maine, to be a nanny for her grandchild Tansy. But Valery soon discovers, to her horror, that this is no ordinary child...she is death cloaked in beauty, consummate evil wrapped in the gauze of innocence. She's also a killer. And it's Valery who will pay for those crimes... if she isn't killed first.

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Circle of Secrets

Kim Morrison's college friend Mary Ellen calls late one night, begging her to come to Starset, the family mansion on Heron Island, a strange remote place off the Georgia coast. For Kim, it's a summons too desperate to ignore. But from the moment Kim arrives, she's plagued by violence and savage accidents. And most terrifying of all, Mary Ellen isn't there. Because she's been dead and buried for three years. But Kim is certain it was Mary Ellen's voice on the phone. Something horrifying is going on...and if Kim isn't careful, she could be the next one in a grave.

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The Haunting of Drumroe

Eileen Donegan has premonitions of the future...and when they happen, there's always tragedy. And yet, when she receives a cable from her Aunt Agnes inviting her to Drumroe, the ancestral Donegan home, she doesn't feel the slightest twinge of terror. She should. As soon as she arrives, dread and fear sweep over her. Her anxiety deepens when her Aunt disappears. Eileen knows in her soul that her Aunt is dead. And that something evil, a horror from the past, is rising up to strike again. Is the evil in Eileen heself? Is she, as they say in the village, a witch like her great-grandmother? Eileen is afraid...but she can't leave yet, not until she finds out if death is stalking her. Or if she is death herself.

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Bloodroots Manor

Young interior decorator Nancy Hazleton is still reeling from the shock of her husband's fatal accident when she is hired by the Howells, a mysterious family in Kentucky, to redecorate Bloodroots Manor, their ancestral home. She arrives from New York very late at night, in middle of a brutal storm, and things only get worse from there. She finds herself amidst a strange family inexplicably seething with resentment towards her...including Old Sam, the ruthless power behind everything, and his daughter Jodie, who has a burning look of madness that Nancy knows far too well...like her own reflection. She begins to suspect she was brought here for something more than decorating...and they will let her leave is in a pine box.

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Claudette Nicole

Books by Claudette Nicole

The Secret of Harbor House

Dark Whispers

The Claudette Nicole Reader #1: Seven Full Novels

Gothic Suspense: 12 Full Novels

When the Wind Cries

The Haunted Heart

Moonwater

House at Hawk's End

The Dark Mill

Circle of Secrets

The Haunting of Drumroe

Bloodroots Manor

The Mistress of Orion Hall