Heaven
Of all the folks in the mountain shacks, The Casteels
were the lowest the scum of the hills.
Heaven Leigh Casteel was the prettiest, smartest girl in the backwoods, despite
her ragged clothes and dirty face despite a father meaner than ten vipers despite her weary stepmother, who worked her like
a mule. For her brother Tom and the little ones, Heaven clung to her pride and her hopes. Someday they'd get away and show
the world that they were decent, fine and talented worthy of love and respect.
Then Heaven's stepmother ran off, and her wicked, greedy father had a scheme
a vicious scheme that threatened to destroy the precious dream of Heaven and the children forever!
Dark Angel
At last, Heaven would find the happiness she longed
for free from the scorn and contempt of her past!
In her grandmother's fine, rich Boston house, Heaven Leigh Casteel dreamed
of a wonderful new life of new friends, the best schools, beautiful clothes and most important, love. The pearls of culture,
wisdom and breeding would now be hers. Soon she would make the Casteel name respectable, find her brothers and sisters, and
have a family again.
But even in the world of the wealthy, there were strange forebodings, secrets
best forgotten. And as Heaven reached out for love, she was slowly ensnared in a sinister web of cruel deceits and hidden
passions!
Fallen Hearts
Proud and beautiful, Heaven came back to the hills
to rise at last above her family's shame!
As Logan's bride, she would savor now the love she had sought for so long.
And free from her father's clutches, she would live again in her backwoods town, a respected teacher and cherished wife.
But after a wedding trip to Boston's Farthinghale Manor and a lavish, elegant
party, Heaven and Logan are persuaded to stay... lured by Tony Tatterton's guile to live amidst the Tatterton wealth and privilege.
Then the ghosts of Heaven's past rise up once more, writhing around
her fragile happiness... threatening her precious love with scandal and jealousy, sinister passions and dangerous dreams!
Gates of Paradise
Stunned by tragedy, desperate and alone, Heaven's
daughter clung to the frailest of dreams!
The car crash that killed Heaven and Logan left Annie Casteel Stonewall orphaned
and crippled. Whisked off to Farthinggale Manor by the possessive Tony Tatterton, Annie pines for her lost family, but especially
for Luke, her half-brother.
Friend of her childhood, her fantasy prince, her loving confidante without
the warm glow of Luke's love, she is lost in the shadows of despair. When Annie discovers Troy's cottage hidden in Farthinggale's
woods, the mystery of her past deepens. And even as she yearns to see Luke again, her hopes and dreams are darkened by the
sinister Casteel spelltreacherous, powerful and evil!
Web of Dreams
With nowhere to go, no one to help her, Leigh fled
into the arms of Luke Casteel!
Leigh VanVoreen had to escape from Boston's Farthinggale Manor. The foul secret
she harbored within her seemed to darken her life forever. Jillian, her mother, would not believe her... and Tony Tatterton,
her stepfather, had betrayed her most cruelly.
But the pure devotion of Luke Casteel promised her hope and respect. Only
Luke knew her deepest of secrets only Luke would love and protect her. Bravely she bore the suspicions of the Willies' hillfolk,
as she tried to grasp the happiness that had so long eluded her.
Leigh prayed with all her heart that her bright, shining dreams would save
her from tragedy at last...