Water Witch

Book Two of the Fairwick Chronicles – a dark gothic fantasy from the author of Incubus

Carol Goodman graduated from Vassar College, where she majored in Latin. After teaching Latin for several years, she studied for an MFA in fiction. Her writing has been published in a number of literary magazines. She currently teaches writing and lives in Long Island, USA. 
 
She is the author of Incubus as well as a number of books written with her husband under the name Lee Carroll, including Black Swan Rising and The Watch Tower.

“You have only to call my name to bring me back,” he whispered, his breath hot in my ear. “You have only to love me to make me human.” 
 
Seduced by a powerful incubus demon, Callie has succeeded in banishing him to the Borderlands but Liam still haunts her dreams, tempting her with the knowledge of how to bring him back. 
 
But loving an incubus usually ends in death for a human. For her own sake, Callie must learn to control her desires and ensure Liam remains trapped for all eternity in his watery prison. 
 
Only there is a more dangerous creature than Liam in the Borderlands. The Water Witch is looking for a way back…

Incubus

The first novel in a series of urban fantasy meets modern gothic novels

Hopelessly addictive...definitely the season's guilty pleasure

Incubus is a fabulous mixture of classic Gothic themes, paranormal romance and urban fantasy. Hugely enjoyable and highly recommended, Incubus gets the Fairwick Chronicles off to a great start - leaving this reviewer already looking forward to the next instalment of this series

successfully bringing together a welcome injection of gothic mystery back into a supernatural romance story. I very much enjoyed reading this book and without a doubt can say that Goodman's Fairwick Chronicles have a lot of potential for future reading

Love the Twilight series? Then read Carol Goodman's new vampire thriller, Incubus

This is a wonderfully clever and inventive tale of magic, yet still contemporary and believable. The author's subtle yet very effective use of foreshadowing keeps the reader engaged, and the surprising ending has a lovely dose of bittersweet romance and a good dash of optimism

This book pulled me in and wouldn't let go. I'm pleased to have found another paranormal series to get myself hooked on and am already looking forward to the next installment of The Fairwick Chronicles. Paranormal romance fans will certainly get their fix

An original novel which combines elements of gothic romance with the current trend for supernatural fiction.

This is a fabulous book. It's intriguing, well-written and a real page turner.

An enjoyable, solid, gothic fantasy offering

a literal fairytale romance which keeps you gripped until the very end.

A lovely book, beautiful to look at and a captivating story. Goodman has a superb way of drawing you into her world, the magic within is subtle, enchanting enough to weave a spell over the reader without causing you to suspend belief.

Carol Goodman graduated from Vassar College, where she majored in Latin. After teaching Latin for several years, she studied for an MFA in fiction. Her writing has been published in a number of literary magazines. She currently lives in Long Island, USA. 
 
Carol Goodman's books have been nominated for the IMPAC award twice, the Mary Higgins Clark award, and the Nero Wolfe Award. Her novel The Seduction of Water won the Hammett Prize.

'This is where all stories start, on the edge of a dark wood...' 
 
Ever since moving to Fairwick to take up a teaching post at the local college, Callie has been having vivid, erotic dreams about a man made out of moonlight and shadows. Dreams she begins to fear as well as anticipate... 
 
She learns that her home - a Victorian cottage at the edge of a wood she bought on a whim - is supposedly haunted. And then her new - and rather strange - colleagues tell her a local legend about an incubus demon with a human past who was enchanted by a fairy queen...

The Ghost Orchid

The chilling new gothic thriller from the author of The Lake of Dead Languages

Embrace your inner Goth with this atmospheric shiver fest

The strength of The Lake of Dead Languages is a silken prose that lures the reader into Goodman's . . . story of murder, suicide . . . revenge, and madness

Like Donna Tartt's A Secret History or a good film noir . . . [The Lake of Dead Languages] keep readers hooked.

A highly charged novel of suspense that will have you riveted to your chair

Carol Goodman graduated from Vassar College, where she majored in Latin. After teaching Latin for several years, she studied for an MFA in fiction. Her writing has been published in a number of literary magazines. She currently teaches writing and lives in Long Island, USA.

Bosco: once a beautiful, stately home, now a tranquil artists' retreat. Ellis Brooks has come here for the peace and quiet - and for the opportunity to write a novel inspired by the scandalous events that took place in the mansion's early days, a scandal involving a medium of dubious repute, three dead children and a séance that ended in tragedy. 
 
As Ellis delves into Bosco's sinister history, she starts to uncover unnerving connections between the living and the dead. The past is forcing its way into the present, and - as the members of the artistic community come under greater and greater threat - Ellis must untangle the truth caught up in the house's murky past, before it ensnares them all...

The Drowning Tree

The secrets of the past never die. But they can kill-

Carol Goodman graduated from Vassar College where she majored in Latin. After teaching Latin for several years, she studied for an MFA in fiction. Her writing has been published in a number of literary magazines. She currently teaches writing and lives in Long Island, USA.

August Penrose created the stained glass 'Lady Window' to adorn the chapel of the university he founded for the daughters of the women who worked in his factory, the Rose Glass Works. Depicting his wife, Eugenie, as the Lady of Shallot, it's a mesmerising portrait that has come to embody the spirit of the school itself. But now, eighty years after it was created, the Lady Window is due for restoration. The task falls to former alumna Juno McKay. She's restoring it with the help of her friend, Christine Webb, an art historian who is researching the window for her thesis. Christine seems to have discovered some new evidence that suggests that Clare, not her sister Eugenie, was the subject for the Lady Window. But before Christine can discuss her findings with Juno, she's found dead in a boating accident that eerily echoes that fate of the Lady of Shallot. But did she drown or was it something more sinister? As Juno starts to make her own investigations into just how Christine died, she learns more about Augustus Penrose and his family. The Lady Window was not the only thing the Penroses' bequeathed to the world. Madness and deception also form part of their legacy-

Seduction Of Water

A second novel of suspense from this building new writer: over 25,000 copies sold of Lake of Dead Languages in paperback

Carol Goodman graduated from Vassar College, where she majored in Latin. After teaching Latin for several years, she studied for an MFA in fiction. Her writing has been published in a number of literary magazines. She currently teaches writing and works as a writer-in-residence. She lives in Long Island, USA.

Many years ago, Iris Greenfeder's mother disappeared. They were living at Hotel Equinox where Iris's father was the manager and where her mother wrote delicate, powerful fantasies. Then one day, she took a train and never returned. She was found dead in a hotel fire in Brooklyn, registered as another man's wife. 
 
Returning to Hotel Equinox, Iris needs to find the truth about her mother; there are some clues in her writing, and others in the memories of those who knew her. Kay Greenfeder, it seems, was a women without a past. But as Iris begins to untangle the secrets of years before, she realises that the past was very different to what she had believed, and much more dangerous...

The Lake Of Dead Languages

From the depths of the past, deadly secrets are unfolding...A gripping story of murder and secrets in the bestselling tradition of Donna Tartt's campus novel The Secret History and BAFTA award-winning film Dead Poet's Society.

Fulfilling... Miss Jean Brodie meets Donna Tartt... A good read, promising much for the future.

  Goodman's New England gothic sets up a chilling atmosphere and a gruesome scenario very nicely indeed.

a very slinky little spine-chiller whose occasional forays into complete madness don't do too much harm.

A gripping, well-written psychological thriller, rich in atmospheric detail.

A highly charged novel of suspense that will have you riveted to your chair.

Embrace your inner Goth with this atmospheric shiver fest.

Rich prose and a twisting plot make for a gripping read.

Like Donna Tartt’s "The Secret History" or a good film noir . . . Jane’s low-key narration has just the right tone to keep readers hooked

The strength of 'The Lake of Dead Languages' is a silken prose that lures the reader into Goodman’s . . . story of murder, suicide . . . revenge, and madness

Part suspense, part coming-of-age, and all-enthralling . . . A book that needs the roar of a fire to ward off its psychic chill

Carol Goodman graduated from Vassar College, where she majored in Latin. After teaching Latin for several years, she studied for an MFA in Fiction. Her early writing was published in a number of literary magazines and her subsequently bestselling psychological thriller books have been nominated for many literary awards. She lives in Long Island, USA.

Jane Hudson never thought she would return to Heart Lake. Her years there as a scholarship girl ended in a fatal and mysterious double tragedy. 
 
Now she is back, struggling to adjust to her new life teaching Latin and as a single mother. But the events that haunted her memories for so many years begin to recur in front of her eyes. It seems she alone can see what is happening, and only she will be able to prevent a second catastrophe... 
 
Surrounded by the lake that gives the school its name, steeped in history and overflowing with the emotions of teenage girls, Heart Lake guards its past - but cannot keep it hidden.

Carol Goodman

[Goodman] skillfully entwines the past and present, the mundane and magical, love and loss, to spin a beautifully nuanced and sensuous tale rooted in legend and lore

How far would you go for love? 
Callie McFay is about to cross worlds and time... 
 
Fairwick used to be populated by all manner of magical creatures but when a cabal of witches forced the closure of the last door to Fairie, the townsfolk had to choose sides. Now it is up to Callie to find a way back. 
 
Her quest will take her far from home – to a 17th Century Scotland where the demon she once fell in love with is still very much a man...

Carol Goodman

Praise for Dark Possession

[Goodman] skillfully entwines the past and present, the mundane and magical, love and loss, to spin a beautifully nuanced and sensuous tale rooted in legend and lore

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