The Falcon and the Moon

Falcon Saga #7

by Catherine Darby

The Victorian age was at its sumptuous height when Leah Falcon became mistress of the great, tragedy-haunted family manor of Kingsmead. Proud as only a Falcon could be, Leah was brilliant far beyond her still tender years, and possessed of an inner strength that belied her sex.

Easily Leah dominated her sisters, lovely, sensual Edith, and sensitive, strangely gifted Elizabeth. Subtly she maipulated hr brothers, Lord John Falcon, with his shameful secret flaw, and Price Falcon, with his wastrel ways and slavery to the pleasures of the flesh.

There was only one thing Leah could not control - the vulnerability of her own hungering woman's heart. And when a handsome, mysterious stranger come into her life to fill that aching void, Leah was powerless to resister him - or to prevent the evil and corruption he spread like a satanic spell over all who bore the Falcon name and the Falcon curse...

Genres: Gothic

336 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1976

About the author

Pseudonym for Maureen Peters

Maureen Peters was born in Caernarvon, Wales, on March 3, 1935, and was married and divorced twice; she has two sons and two daughters. In addition to biographical fiction, historical romances, and mystery novels written under her own name, other noms de plume include Veronica Black, Catherine Darby, Levanah Lloyd, Belinda Grey, Elizabeth Law, Judith Rothman, and Sharon Whitby.

As Catherine Darby, Maureen Peters wrote books that were sold as Gothics, such as the 12 books in the Falcon Saga, but were really what Sarah calls "dark family sagas." Or more precisely, she describes their plot lines this way: "Themes of illicit passion, family rivalry, witchcraft, revenge, and even reincarnation permeated the novels…"