The Witch of Rathborne Castle

The Witch of Rathborne Castle
Author: Virginia Barlow
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Inc
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2021-09-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1509237976

Lady Jane Lenwood is abandoned and left penniless and alone at Rathborne Castle in the middle of a dark, twisted forest. She yearns to live a normal life and blames her misfortunes on the current duke. But Lady Jane has a secret, a voice in her head warning her of the future, which brings unwanted visitors to her gates. Wounded, Max Radley is found inside the gates of Rathborne. He is intrigued and drawn to the beautiful red-haired woman the locals call a witch. After spending the winter snowed in, Max must resume his search for a traitor but finds he cannot forget Lady Jane. Treason, enemies, lies and deception surround them. Jane must give everything to save them both, as well as Rathborne.

Once Upon a Christmas Castle

Once Upon a Christmas Castle
Author: Virginia Barlow
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Inc
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2023-11-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1509250387

Lady Rosalind Chatham journeys with her family to Weston Castle to wed an ancient earl on Christmas day. Yearning for true love, she falls for the duke, her stepfather’s cousin, while preparing for her nuptials. Lady Rosalind entrances the Duke of Weston. Concerned for her future with the tempestuous earl, he can’t afford to get involved. The fines and scandal will be too great for a man of his wealth and power. When the truth comes to light, and he almost loses her forever, he finds he cannot afford to give less than his whole heart.

Igniting Ireland

Igniting Ireland
Author: Virginia Barlow
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Inc
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2022-12-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 150924672X

Fiona Ryan’s firm offers her an all-expense paid trip to Ireland following a brutal year of personal loss. A freak storm ravishes her scenic tour, and Fiona awakens in the seventeenth century. Falling hard for her sinfully attractive rescuer, she tells him of his fate to save him but fails. Back in the present time, Brendan O’Connor, millionaire finds Fiona adrift and rescues her. Calling him a different name, she speaks as though she knew him in another time and place. Problem is he remembers intimate things about a woman he never met and gets the feeling he’s been with her before….

Gamble of Hearts

Gamble of Hearts
Author: Virginia Barlow
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Inc
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2023-04-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1509247955

When a powerful duke arrives to collect his winnings from her brother, Lady Amora Hargrove discovers she is one of them. Following her brother’s arrest, she becomes the duke’s ward and falls for him hard and fast. Problem is, the duke has a violent hatred for gamblers, and she possesses a natural ability. Something he can never discover, or she will lose him forever. The Duke of Ravencroft exacts revenge for his nephew’s death and gains a ward. Irresistibly drawn to the villain’s sister, he must play and gamble with their hearts or lose everything.

Coconut Macaroon Scandal

Coconut Macaroon Scandal
Author: Virginia Barlow
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Inc
Total Pages: 107
Release: 2021-11-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1509237828

When Emma Davis is summoned to her hometown on negligence charges her world turns upside down. She faces losing everything she worked so hard for, her bakery and her inheritance. She's met all the conditions of the will but one--a fiancé. Jilted and mistrustful, Emma cannot face her family alone. When Gran's ghost recommends a particular customer for the job, Emma closes her eyes and proposes. Sebastian Lewis agrees without hesitation. He's had his eye on this beauty for some time. She has qualities none of the women in his past possess. Determined to make their engagement real, Sebastian follows her home until an emergency calls him away. Emma's past and insecurities rise as her life and future are threatened.

Devil's Dominion

Devil's Dominion
Author: Virginia Barlow
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Inc
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2022-10-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1509244492

Even the best-laid plans can falter. Lady Rolayna Seville has one chance to make up for past mistakes, marriage to Baron Rauf Oliveander. Hopeful to appease her powerful father, they journey to seal the contract when they are abducted by a demon warrior and his disciples. Desperate to obtain forgiveness, Rolayna uses every weapon in her arsenal to escape. Dragos, Duke of Dragonthorne has one job, to do whatever is necessary to stop the rebellion, including abducting a powerful duke and his pain in the ass daughter. When the situation deteriorates, his remaining option is to marry her, something he swore he’d never do. The attraction between them is soul-consuming. With the rebels attacking at every turn, Rolayna must choose between her planned future and remaining at the heart of the devil’s dominion.

Music and Mythmaking in Film

Music and Mythmaking in Film
Author: Timothy E. Scheurer
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2007-12-05
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0786431903

This work studies the conventions of music scoring in major film genres (e.g., science fiction, hardboiled detective, horror, historical romance, western), focusing on the artistic and technical methods that modern composers employ to underscore and accompany the visual events. Each chapter begins with an analysis of the major narrative and scoring conventions of a particular genre and concludes with an in-depth analysis of two film examples from different time periods. Several photographic stills and sheet music excerpts are included throughout the work, along with a select bibliography and discography.

Swordsmen of the Screen

Swordsmen of the Screen
Author: Jeffrey Richards
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2014-03-26
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1317928644

This fascinating study of the genre of swashbuckling films received wide critical acclaim when it was first published in 1977. Jeffrey Richards assesses the contributions to the genre of directors, designers and fencing masters, as well as of the stars themselves, and devotes several chapters to the principal subjects if the swashbucklers – pirates, highwaymen, cavaliers and knights. The result is to recall, however fleetingly, the golden days of the silver screen. Reviews of the original edition: ‘An intelligent, scholarly, well-written account of adventure films, this work is sensitive both to cinema history and to the literary origins of the "swashbuckler"....Essential for any library with books on film, it may very well be the definitive book on its subject.’ – Library Journal

The Spenser Encyclopedia

The Spenser Encyclopedia
Author: A.C. Hamilton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 858
Release: 2020-07-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1134934823

'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains Edmund Spenser remains one of Britain's most famous poets. With nearly 700 entries this Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive one-stop reference tool for: * appreciating Spenser's poetry in the context of his age and our own * understanding the language, themes and characters of the poems * easy to find entries arranged by subject.