CONSTANCE KENT
HISTORICAL MYSTERY ROMANCE
Ravenswood Hall
Family is everything.
The Beginning
1875, Maine
A decaying mansion. A feuding family. A dark secret that forces them together and drives them apart.
The Widowed Bride is the novella-length prequel to Constance Kent's Ravenswood Hall Series, introducing the wealthy and powerful Coleridge family before their fall.
Aubrey Eliot arrives at the Hall and stumbles across a dark secret that sets the stage for the bitter feud that will divide the Coleridge sons decades later. A feud that leads to moral decay, insanity, and even murder.
Plunge into the shadowy seductive world of the Coleridge family and discover the lengths a family will go to protect their secrets.
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Book One
December 1918, Maine
“Didn’t you hear the rumors before coming here?”
The Great War has just ended and Spanish Flu is decimating the population. Ravenswood Hall remains isolated from the world, poised at the top of a hill on an island off the rocky coast of Maine.
It is to this house that Garrick Coleridge returns, broken from the War and wanting nothing to do with his family or the businesses that gave them their wealth.
Emmaline West has fallen on desperate times. Her family has succumbed to the Flu - most recently, a beloved sister who was engaged to Garrick Coleridge. She stalks her sister's fiancé to Ravenswood Hall, seeking revenge for his cruel abandonment, and finds a man tormented by a secret that he risked his life on the battlefield to escape.
Book Two
February 1919, Maine
“I always feel like someone is watching me.”
Hudson Coleridge was seventeen when he survived a boating accident that claimed the lives of hhis father and uncle. The inquest cleared him of blame but not in the eyes of his aunt and his cousins when he refuses to explain what happened that day. Eight years later, Hudson is still under suspicion.
Larklyn Bates was sixteen when she was hired to attend to Hudson's mother, a hypochondriac who keeps to her bed. Now twenty-one, she's lost all connection to the village where she was born and she feels out of place at Ravenswood Hall. A chance encounter on the beach brings Larklyn and Hudson together and it seems they might find happiness.
Until a string of deaths drags Hudson's past secret into the present and Larklyn wonders if the Coleridge outcast is a killer after all.
A Noose for a Nightingale Release date: TBD
"Dark Shadows meets Days of Our Lives."
Ravenswood Hall is a five-book series set on an island off the coast of Maine in 1918. It chronicles the lives and loves of the Coleridge sons during the decay of their family's wealth and power. Behind this fall from grace is a dark secret that some would kill to keep hidden.
An American gothic series, rich in mystery, suspense and romance without vampires or other paranormal elements. The series will release in 2023 on Amazon and in Kindle Unlimited. Subscribe to Miss Kent's newsletter for release dates and to hear fascinating nuggets of insight into the Coleridge clan.
