Books like The splendour falls by Susanna Kearsley

Bod is the lone living child in a graveyard, raised by ghosts, werewolves and other spectral inhabitants. As he learns their ancient customs and the ability to Fade, he confronts the mysteries of both living and dead worlds.

Thomas Hardy’s bleak final novel follows Jude Fawley, a stonemason from rural Wessex, whose search for faith, love and independence collides with society’s harsh conventions and leads to tragedy.

An epic tale of memory, intrigue, and betrayal set against a panoramic backdrop of twentieth-century history.

Jennifer McKinnon discovers a knight of legend from 800 years ago in her Manhattan bookstore. What unfolds is a story of destiny, time travel, and unexpected love. Jennifer must decide if the past she has never known can change her future.

A family’s idyllic summer party at a grand estate in Cornwall turns into a desperate search when six‑year‑old Theo vanishes, leaving the house abandoned and the siblings torn apart.

Set in a crumbling Georgian manor in rural Warwickshire, *The Little Stranger* follows a doctor arriving at a long‑standing family home where a death‑bed patient and chilling supernatural forces intertwine against the backdrop of post‑war Britain.

A quest across time, from a lost girl on an Australian voyage to a Cornish inheritance, where a hidden garden holds Victorian secrets and a desperate search for justice reveals family history and forgotten loves.

Thomas of Hookton returns to England in the midst of the Hundred Years’ War to pursue the Holy Grail, confronting a ruthless Dominican Inquisitor and the lingering threat of a black rider who killed all he loved.

In the turbulent final years of the antebellum South, a Virginia plantation heiress and a former Comanche captive forge a love that transcends family legacy, war, and the harsh frontier.

Kerry defies her frivolous mother to travel to America and publish her late father's manuscript, but faces a swindling cheat who tries to steal it. A gallant young stranger steps in to defend her and support her dream.

Journalist Avery Chauvin is devastated when she receives word of her father's suicide. How could her father, a dedicated physician, have taken his own life? That he set himself on fire is unfathomable.Returning to her hometown of Cypress Springs, Louisiana, Avery desperately searches for answers. Instead she hears whispered rumors of strange happenings, of neighbors who go missing in the night. She discovers a box of old newspaper articles in her father's house, all covering the horrific murder of a local woman. Why had her father kept them?Then the past and present collide. A woman is found brutally slain. An outsider passing through town vanishes. And Avery begins to wonder, could her father have been the victim of foul play?As each step closer to the truth exposes yet another layer of deceit, Avery must face the fact that in this peaceful Southern town a terrible evil resides, protected--until now--by the power of silence.

Contains 37 plays by William Shakespeare, including classics like Hamlet, Julius Caesar, and Macbeth.

A contemporary Scottish writer uncovers a secret from 1708 involving a Jacobite invasion and a long‑lost tragedy, as a haunting ancestral memory threatens to unleash the buried truth for all to see.