The Victorian Gothic Collection

The Victorian Gothic Collection brings together L.M. Merrington's two chilling Gothic mysteries, Greythorne and The Iron Line. Greythorne For Nell Featherstone, a governess position at Greythorne Manor promises a new life. But her precocious young charge, Sophie Greythorne, is fey, pale and unlike other children, and the crumbling manor on a rocky, windswept island hides fearsome secrets that threaten them both. And Sophie’s father is the most dangerous of all. Professor Nathaniel Greythorne knows he’s the world’s greatest scientist, and his final experiment will silence his detractors forever. But he’s missing one final ingredient, which Nell can provide – as long as her curiosity doesn’t derail everything. Like his late wife Lucy’s did. When a violent storm reveals Lucy’s body is not in her grave, Nell becomes suspicious about the Professor’s research. But what she discovers in his laboratory will turn all her ideas about life and death, morality and creation on their head. Trapped with a man walking a fine line between passion and madness, Nell must make an impossible choice between life, death, and life after death, where any mistake could be her last. The Iron Line The town at the end of the line is hiding a dark secret… Young widow Jane Adams has lost everything—her husband, her livelihood, and her self-respect. A job with the railway in the little town of Tungold promises a new start, far from all the ghosts that haunt her past. At first glance, the town seems perfect—but all is not right in Tungold. The townspeople are frosty and unwelcoming, and there are dark rumours of a ghost train that runs in the dead of night, carrying the souls of those bound for hell. When a railway official is murdered, Jane teams up with the new young police constable, Alec Ward, to get to the bottom of the town's secrets. Who killed Brian Mathieson? And what is behind the mysterious ghost train? But Jane is also hiding a secret of her own—one that will put her life and everything she cares about on the line.

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