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Storm in the Mountains
A strange assignment took Lynn to the pink chateau in the Pyrenees... and brought her to a sinister link with the past.
To Lynne, the job seems a golden opportunity - nurse to an elderly invalid at a beautiful chateau high in the Pyrenees. But Mme Eugenie de Selincourt turns out to be a remarkably fit old lady, and Lynn discovers that she has nothing to do but join in the life of the idle rich. Why, then, is a trained nurse required? Everyone, or almost everyone, is charming to her, and the handsome Marcel becomes her very willing escort.
To Lynne, the job seems a golden opportunity - nurse to an elderly invalid at a beautiful chateau high in the Pyrenees. But Mme Eugenie de Selincourt turns out to be a remarkably fit old lady, and Lynn discovers that she has nothing to do but join in the life of the idle rich. Why, then, is a trained nurse required? Everyone, or almost everyone, is charming to her, and the handsome Marcel becomes her very willing escort.
- GenresGothic
240 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1967
About the author
Nancy Buckingham
29 books1 followerNancy Jean Buckingham was born on 10 August 1924 in Bristol, England, UK. In 1949, she married John Sawyer, born on 4 October 1919 in London, England, UK. They formed one of the most popular writing-team marriages. The first books, published under her maiden name Nancy Buckingham since 1967, are classical gothic novels. In the 1970s, they started to used the pseudonyms Christina Abbey and Erica Quest. In 1980, they sold her first novels to Silhouette, and combined their names to create the pen name Nancy John. They also published one novel as Hilary London. The last novels that they published are a popular police series as Erica Quest, protagonized by the Detective Chief Inspector Kate Maddox. Their last novel was released in 1992.
Nancy Jean Buckingham Sawyer was the eighth elected Chairman (1973-1975) of the Romantic Novelists' Association, and is now one of its vice-presidents. John passed away in 1994.
Nancy Jean Buckingham Sawyer was the eighth elected Chairman (1973-1975) of the Romantic Novelists' Association, and is now one of its vice-presidents. John passed away in 1994.
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March 4, 2012
This Ace first gothic - circa 1967, fluctuates between creating boredom and unintentional giggles. It's saved only from being a total waste of time by it’s interesting set-piece : the gorgeous but crumbling chateau made entirely out of pink marble.
The plot is familiar - orphaned nurse Lynn Calder takes a job offer caring for a sick old woman in the Pyrenees but when she gets to the mansion finds that the woman is anything but ill. What gives? Rather than leave she stays, torn between being romanced by the woman’s charming French grandson and the marital problems of his flaky sister Zelie and her surly husband Grant. There is of course their neglected child - which tips off the reader where this is headed.
The old woman is pressing for her to accept a marriage proposal from the hot-blooded Marcel days after they met. Meanwhile she's overcome by the revelation, after she saves Grant’s child from an electric shock ( due to a faulty razor?! ), that she loves Grant! Considering he’s barely acknowledged her existence the scene is lol. There’s the old look-out-for-the-boulder-rumbling-towards-you scene but not much else going on.
And the writing itself is dry and dated ( even for ‘67.)Buckingham must use the adjective gay or gaily at least fifty times. Check out only if you're a fan of Gothic's it is after all a breezy read.
The plot is familiar - orphaned nurse Lynn Calder takes a job offer caring for a sick old woman in the Pyrenees but when she gets to the mansion finds that the woman is anything but ill. What gives? Rather than leave she stays, torn between being romanced by the woman’s charming French grandson and the marital problems of his flaky sister Zelie and her surly husband Grant. There is of course their neglected child - which tips off the reader where this is headed.
The old woman is pressing for her to accept a marriage proposal from the hot-blooded Marcel days after they met. Meanwhile she's overcome by the revelation, after she saves Grant’s child from an electric shock ( due to a faulty razor?! ), that she loves Grant! Considering he’s barely acknowledged her existence the scene is lol. There’s the old look-out-for-the-boulder-rumbling-towards-you scene but not much else going on.
And the writing itself is dry and dated ( even for ‘67.)Buckingham must use the adjective gay or gaily at least fifty times. Check out only if you're a fan of Gothic's it is after all a breezy read.
May 14, 2026
"... I knew better than to believe in phantoms, but even for me the noise was unatterably eerie, coming as it did from below. Then I thought of the cellars ..."
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