title: Thorne Manor: And Other Bizarre Tales
author:  Diane Wing 
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  Chloe, Lady Stanforth, is already a widow at age twenty-three and eager to be
  gone from Delamere Hall, where she has been in charge of things since her
  husband Stephens demise in a carriage accident a little over a year past.
  Stephens Uncle George has become the next Lord Stanforth, but within six
  months he was himself taken by a seizure. Belinda, the local girl hed married,
  much to the shock of the entire County, is hardly equal to running an English
  manor house, even in North Lancashire. So the duty fell to Chloe, and a mixed
  blessing it has been. True, she loves Delamere Hall and its beautiful coastal
  vista of the Irish Sea, but in the past year this has become a house of
  mourningand something else as well. For Chloe cant help but sense that all is
  not right here.  
  
  
  Fortunately, her tenure as mistress of the manor will end with the arrival of
  Justin Delamere, Stephens cousin and the new Lord Stanfort