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Magic Ring
In the palm of her hand Angela Gambrell held the magic ring.
It was a gift from across the seas from the parents she had not seen since their return to Italy ten years before she had been only eight.
The ring was a symbol of the love her father and mother bore her though an ocean separated them. It was a luck ring, her father wrote, that she must wear it always.
Angela slipped it on her finger and made a promise to herself. She would find her parents once again, even if she had to deft the secret societies that held Italy in terror, even if she must risk her very life.
It was a gift from across the seas from the parents she had not seen since their return to Italy ten years before she had been only eight.
The ring was a symbol of the love her father and mother bore her though an ocean separated them. It was a luck ring, her father wrote, that she must wear it always.
Angela slipped it on her finger and made a promise to herself. She would find her parents once again, even if she had to deft the secret societies that held Italy in terror, even if she must risk her very life.
413 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1978
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About the author
Dorothy Daniels
165 books31 followersAccording to a mini-biography, accompanied by a photograph, on the rear cover of one of her many gothic novels, Dorothy Daniels was born in Connecticut but by the time she was a full-time writer, in the middle 1960's, was living in California. She was initially an English teacher at a state college but later wrote articles that appeared in national magazines, which led to her career as a writer of mostly gothic paperbacks. Lancer books, which published more than twenty of her novels, proclaimed her "America's Most Popular Gothic Novelist" while Pocket Books claimed her gothic novels had sold over eleven million copies by the middle 1970's. Her approximately 146 novels were published by a dozen paperback publishers, some had as many as four printings while others were printed only once. Lancer and Warner Books together published more than sixty of her novels. The vast majority of her novels were written in the first person and this was a trademark of sorts with Dorothy Daniels, as she rarely strayed from this pattern. Several of her novels take place in the Old South. Her novels were also considerably more involving plot-wise and contained more character development than other gothic novels. She published her last gothic novel, "House of Silence", in late 1980. Afterward she wrote a handfull of historical romances and her last published novel appears to be "Crisis at Valcour" in 1985.
The aforementioned photograph on the rear cover of her 1965 book "Cliffside Castle" contradicts some claims that Dorothy Daniels was male, and at least one internet website's author insists that Dorothy Daniels was actually a man named Paul Hugo Little who lived in Chicago and wrote over 700 books under at least a dozen pseudonyms. We may never know for certain who Dorothy Daniels was. Several of her gothic paperbacks, credited to Dorothy Daniels or Suzanne Somers, were copyrighted by Norman Daniels. She published one novel, "House of False Faces", under the pseudonym Helen Gray Weston, but this book was later reissued as "Dorothy Daniels writing as Helen Gray Weston". She wrote three nurse romance books in addition to her many gothic novels.
Also wrote under the names:
Angela Gray
Cynthia Kavanaugh
Helaine Ross
Suzanne Somers
Geraldine Thayer
Helen Gray Weston
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
The aforementioned photograph on the rear cover of her 1965 book "Cliffside Castle" contradicts some claims that Dorothy Daniels was male, and at least one internet website's author insists that Dorothy Daniels was actually a man named Paul Hugo Little who lived in Chicago and wrote over 700 books under at least a dozen pseudonyms. We may never know for certain who Dorothy Daniels was. Several of her gothic paperbacks, credited to Dorothy Daniels or Suzanne Somers, were copyrighted by Norman Daniels. She published one novel, "House of False Faces", under the pseudonym Helen Gray Weston, but this book was later reissued as "Dorothy Daniels writing as Helen Gray Weston". She wrote three nurse romance books in addition to her many gothic novels.
Also wrote under the names:
Angela Gray
Cynthia Kavanaugh
Helaine Ross
Suzanne Somers
Geraldine Thayer
Helen Gray Weston
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
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January 23, 2016
Este libro es heredado, tenia muchas ganas de leerlo, la sinopsis se me hacia muy interesante.
Cuando empecé a leerlo, me decepciono. Hiba demasiado rapido, osea tampoco quiero que pasen siglos tratando lo mismo, pero una situacion tiene que durar lo suificiente para que no se sienta rapida. Senti como si la autora no hubiera sabido como darte toda la informacion. La da de un solo golpe, ademas de que pasa de una escena a otra como si nada.
Habia pasado un capitulo y ya sabia al pasado, familia, caracter, etc. de la protagonista. Segui leyendolo, con la esperanza de que mejorara, pero avanzaba y todo seguia igual, me desesperaba. Pero me prometi acabarlo.
Despues de la mitad del libro, la historia empieza a agarrar un buen ritmo y ya no parece tan rapida y hasta llega a llamar un poco de mi atencion. Y aunque el final no se me hace tan malo. Siento la historia como si fuera un fanfic. Un buen fanfic, pero nada mas.
La protagonista no me logro agradar. Y sus actitudes hacia ciertas situaciones no se me hacian creibles, pasaba el llanto, a la serenidad en un segundo en situaciones fuertes, osea que queria hacer pensar que la protagonia es fuerte y no se va amedrentar, pero un poco mas de sentimiento en situaciones de peligro es mas creible. A que solo lloro 5 minutos y ya estoy bien.. Su relacion con Stan se me hizo de lo mas apresurada. La relacion Vito un poco menos, pero igual de rapida, la cofianza que se tienen a un dia de conocerse. Aunque este personaje creo que fue el que mas me agrado.
Es una historia que al final te entretiene, pero no es nada fuera de lo comun.
Cuando empecé a leerlo, me decepciono. Hiba demasiado rapido, osea tampoco quiero que pasen siglos tratando lo mismo, pero una situacion tiene que durar lo suificiente para que no se sienta rapida. Senti como si la autora no hubiera sabido como darte toda la informacion. La da de un solo golpe, ademas de que pasa de una escena a otra como si nada.
Habia pasado un capitulo y ya sabia al pasado, familia, caracter, etc. de la protagonista. Segui leyendolo, con la esperanza de que mejorara, pero avanzaba y todo seguia igual, me desesperaba. Pero me prometi acabarlo.
Despues de la mitad del libro, la historia empieza a agarrar un buen ritmo y ya no parece tan rapida y hasta llega a llamar un poco de mi atencion. Y aunque el final no se me hace tan malo. Siento la historia como si fuera un fanfic. Un buen fanfic, pero nada mas.
La protagonista no me logro agradar. Y sus actitudes hacia ciertas situaciones no se me hacian creibles, pasaba el llanto, a la serenidad en un segundo en situaciones fuertes, osea que queria hacer pensar que la protagonia es fuerte y no se va amedrentar, pero un poco mas de sentimiento en situaciones de peligro es mas creible. A que solo lloro 5 minutos y ya estoy bien.. Su relacion con Stan se me hizo de lo mas apresurada. La relacion Vito un poco menos, pero igual de rapida, la cofianza que se tienen a un dia de conocerse. Aunque este personaje creo que fue el que mas me agrado.
Es una historia que al final te entretiene, pero no es nada fuera de lo comun.
March 31, 2013
No se que me pasa con esta autora sus historias son apresuradas, sin mucho chiste, nada profundas y aun asi consigue que lea sus libros hasta el final.
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