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Sinister Weddings: Bride by Candlelight, Cat's Prey, and Bridge of Fear Kindle Edition

by Dorothy Eden (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
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A special three-in-one edition by Dorothy Eden—featuring Bride by Candlelight, Cat’s Prey, and Bridge of Fear—in which a bride-to-be, a wedding guest, and a recently married woman come face to face with evil as they innocently prepare to celebrate love
Think well before you marry Paul Blaine.

In Bride by Candlelight, this anonymous note is the prelude to a series of disturbing events plaguing Julia Paget. At an isolated New Zealand sheep-farming estate, she discovers that her war-scarred husband-to-be isn’t the man she fell in love with three years earlier.

In Cat’s Prey, Antonia Webb journeys to a remote seaside resort in New Zealand to claim an inheritance and attend her cousin’s wedding. And even the handsome solicitor who warns her away may not be able to protect Antonia from the evil closing around her.

Is Abby Fearon paranoid—or is someone trying to kill her? In Bridge of Fear, this is the question she must answer. Abby arrives in the Australian outback from her native England to find that something has changed in her new husband . . . something that frightens her almost as much as the strange, wild land she now calls home.
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    July 9, 2013
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“Delightful reading. Dorothy Eden has no betters in composing the romantic-mystery of the mystery-romance.” —Los Angeles Times

“For anyone who loves stories of suspense and romance, I recommend Dorothy Eden.” —Mary Stewart 

About the Author

Dorothy Eden (1912–1982) was the internationally acclaimed author of more than forty bestselling gothic, romantic suspense, and historical novels. Born in New Zealand, where she attended school and worked as a legal secretary, she moved to London in 1954 and continued to write prolifically. Eden’s novels are known for their suspenseful, spellbinding plots, finely drawn characters, authentic historical detail, and often a hint of spookiness. Her novel of pioneer life in Australia, The Vines of Yarrabee, spent four months on the New York Times bestseller list. Her gothic historical novels Ravenscroft, Darkwater, and Winterwood are considered by critics and readers alike to be classics of the genre. 

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00DBLR8KU
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Open Road Media Romance (July 9, 2013)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 9, 2013
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 4562 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 707 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 40 ratings

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Dorothy Eden (1912-1982) was the internationally acclaimed author of more than forty bestselling Gothic, romantic suspense, and historical novels. Born in New Zealand, where she attended school and worked as a legal secretary, she moved to London in 1954 and continued to write prolifically. Eden's novels are known for their suspenseful, spellbinding plots, finely drawn characters, authentic historical detail, and often a hint of spookiness.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2018
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4.0 out of 5 stars Classic romance of the mid twentieth century
Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2016
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Classic romance of the mid twentieth century. Great stuff. A young woman, a threat to her life, the man she falls in love with. Feministicallu speaking she solves the problem and the man may or may not help much but her role remains limited to being a happy wife at the end.
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srkromer
3.0 out of 5 stars Gothic Weddings
Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2013
Sinister Weddings by Dorothy Eden is a three in one book bundle. This compilation of novels centers on weddings. In Bride by Candlelight, Julia is a bride to be; in Bridge of Fear, Abbey is a newly married woman; and in Cat's Prey, Antonia is on her way to getting engaged. All three of these novels are gothic and hold a hint of suspense.

Bride by Candlelight
Julia moves to New Zealand to marry a man she met three years ago. During that three year gap she did not talk to Paul because he was badly hurt in the war. Her Uncle Jonathan pushed her to marry Paul because he was the grandson of his true love, Georgina who married another man. During Julia's travels and her stay at Herriot Hills she gets anonymous letters warning her away from Paul with cryptic messages of his dead brother Harry. During her stay she is targeted and almost killed several times. Who can she trust? Who are these cryptic messages from? Why all the secrecy about Harry? (2.5/5 stars)

Bridge of Fear
Abbey moves to Australia from England to marry Luke. When she is married and living in her new house that Luke designed and built himself, she finds that Luke has changed. He is now very distant and cold towards her even though they have only been married a few weeks. She feels that she is constantly being watched by her neighbors and she feels uneasy about everyone being so secretive. Why the sudden change in Luke? Does everyone in Australia stare and watch their neighbors constantly? Why is everyone keeping secrets from her? (3.5/5 stars)

Cat's Prey
When Antonia gets two letters, one from his cousin Simon and one from his soon-to-be wife Iris, imploring her to go to New Zealand after her Aunt Laura dies; she decides to go stay with them for awhile. Antonia is supposed to be inheriting some money from Aunt Laura, but she doesn't know exactly how much, because her aunt stipulated that she not inherit it until she was at least 24 to deter fortune hunters. When strange things start to happen, such as a phone call when she first arrives that says they know what happened to her Aunt Laura and to meet him, as well as a strange crying noise that everyone seems to be covering up by telling her she's hallucinating. What are these strange noises that she hears? Why is everyone trying to convince her something must be wrong with her? (3.5/5 stars)

Personally, I did not think any of these stories were anything special. They all seemed relatively the same to me and everything was tied up too neatly at a very quick pace at the end. I really did not like Bride by Candlelight at all, but once you get past that novel, the other two were fairly good. I can't strongly recommend this bundle of books, but if you like a hint of the macabre you might like Sinister Weddings.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 11, 2014
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Good value romantic mystery fiction
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