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The Ghost Kings
Rachel Dove has spent all her young life traveling the wilds of Africa while her British missionary father tries unsuccessfully to convert the natives. Her mother, just like Rachel, has visions and believes her daughter will live a long, happy life.
But before Rachel can find happiness, she has many challenges to endure. A flash flood traps her with a handsome stranger. The Zulus take her prisoner, believing her to be the incarnation of their goddess. A brutish Englishman driven mad with lust plots to kidnap her. And she discovers a forgotten nation of little people who worship trees, and like her, can see the future.
The Silver Key
Randolph Carter has grown older, and lost the key to the gate of dreams. He yearns to return to the fantastical worlds of his childhood dreams, with their promises of wisdom and understanding that he could not access while he was awake.
Now Randolph lives in the so-called real world, but he wonders which dream realm truly represents reality. He intends to find out, and embarks on a journey that will take him to places both familiar and deeply strange…
The Moon Pool
On the island of Ponape, a party of researchers explores the ruins of an ancient civilization. There they discover an entrance to an underground world full of unusual scientific findings, including strange beings. The most intelligent among this advanced race created an offspring, an entity known as the Dweller. Over time, it turned toward evil. Now, it occasionally returns to the surface to prey upon men and women.
When the group of explorers release the creature from its prison, they unknowingly launch a battle of good versus evil. And there can be only one victor.
Benita
Following the death of her mother, Benita Clifford embarks on a ship from England to Africa to reunite with her estranged father. Along the way, she finds romance with a handsome Englishman aboard the ship, but tragedy strikes before they reach land.
Benita arrives in Africa shaken and ready to start anew. After she meets up with her father and his suspicious partner, she learns about the search for a lost Portuguese treasure. But as their expedition begins, so does a series of dangerous challenges. Warring African tribes, a treacherous fortress, and a mysterious seventeenth-century ghost are just a few of the surprises that await Benita in the wilderness
