Peppermints in the Parlor (Peppermints #1)

Brought Together By Friendship, Torn Apart By Love... Meg Hughes, Tom Fraser And Martin Hunter Were Friends Who Had Grown Up Together In The Grinding Poverty Of A Liverpool Orphanage. Their Prospects Looked Bleak Until The Friends Were Sent To Help Out At Hemingway Shipping Line's Emigrant Lodging House. Then Their Youthful High Spirits Blossomed Into Their Plans For The Future. But The First World War Brought An End To Those Plans, And Threatened To Separate Them. As Time Passes, Meg Grows More And More Beautiful, And The Love The Two Men Feel For Her Becomes Passionately Possessive. Meg, In Different Ways, Is In Love With Both Tom And Martin . . . And Is To Bear A Child By One Of Them. Grief And Suffering, As Well As Happiness And Hope, Must All Play Their Part Before The Childhood Friends' Deep And Complex Relationships Are Finally And Tragically Resolved. Emily Luccock is looking forward to living at Sugar Hill Hall...She remembers her aunt and uncle's grand old mansion well. But this time things are different. Her aunt's once bright and lively home is now dead with silence. Evil lurks in every corner and the dark, shadowed walls watch and whisper late at night. Emily is desperate to uncover the truth about what is happening at Sugar Hill Hall. But time is running out, and she must find a way to save the people and home she cares so much about. Sent to San Francisco to live with her beloved aunt and uncle, newly orphaned Emily expectantly enters their once-happy mansion only to find unimaginable horrors Sent to San Francisco to live with a beloved aunt and uncle, Emily enters their once-happy mansion only to find unimaginable horrors