CLAUDETTE NICOLE READER #2: FIVE FULL NOVELS
Five classic gothic suspense novels. Remote houses. Dangerous devotion. Secrets that kill. This volume gathers five full-length thrillers where isolation sharpens fear and love turns lethal.
Kim Morrison answers a late-night phone call from Mary Ellen, a college friend pleading for help. The voice is unmistakable. The problem is Mary Ellen has been dead for three years. Drawn to Starset, a decaying family mansion on a remote Georgia island, Kim finds herself surrounded by hostility, violent “accidents,” and secrets buried as deeply as the dead. Every step closer to the truth brings another threat, another warning, another brush with death. As the island closes in and the past refuses to stay silent, Kim must uncover who made the call—and why—before she becomes the next body claimed by Starset’s dark legacy.
Widowed and emotionally fragile, New York interior decorator Nancy Hazleton accepts a job at Bloodroots Manor, a vast Kentucky estate soaked in history and menace. From the moment she arrives during a brutal storm, nothing feels right. The Howell family greets her with simmering resentment, led by Old Sam, whose authority is absolute, and Jodie, whose unstable intensity mirrors Nancy’s own buried fears. Accidents pile up. Threats blur with hallucination. Nancy begins to suspect she wasn’t hired to decorate at all. Trapped inside a house that feeds on weakness, she must decide whether she’s losing her grip—or being methodically hunted.
Fleeing heartbreak, Patricia Conway arrives at Cashelderg to study its ancient ruins. Instead, she encounters the Disciples of Light and their mesmerizing leader, Adam Rood. He offers certainty, belonging, and a faith that embraces desire rather than denying it. Patricia feels chosen—until questions surface. A letter written centuries earlier. Disappearances no one will explain. Whispers that suggest obedience enforced by fear. As devotion deepens and passion blurs into control, Patricia realizes belief can be weaponized. To survive, she must expose what Adam truly demands and how far he will go to silence doubt—even if it means sacrificing her life.
Searching for purpose, Stacy Wayland travels to an isolated Alaskan facility known as Harbor House, assisting the brilliant Dr. Closter in treating the mentally ill. At first, the work feels meaningful. The doctor is compassionate, persuasive, and utterly convincing. But a patient’s whispered warning suggests another truth: Harbor House offers love, demands obedience, and punishes resistance with death. When a patient dies under horrifying circumstances, Stacy’s doubts harden into fear. Cut off from the outside world and bound to a man who thrives on control, she must uncover Harbor House’s secret before healing becomes her sentence.
Sheila McCloud returns to Doylan Hall after her aunt’s fatal fall from the cliffs she knew by heart. Grief turns to suspicion when Sheila discovers a hidden medallion and letters hinting at betrayal and murder. As she investigates, the fog-shrouded paths claim more victims, and the killer’s attention shifts to her. Brian, the fiancé she once trusted completely, reenters her life with comfort that now feels calculated. With every revelation, the danger sharpens. Sheila knows the truth is close—and that uncovering it will place her directly in the path of the next fatal fall.
Claudette Nicole, Jon Messmann /
Anthologies, Gothic Romance, Gothic Suspense
