Jamintha

by Jennifer Wilde

A woman travels to a remote island on the edge of the moors to unravel the truth about a past she can’t remember in master of suspense Jennifer Wilde’s spellbinding Gothic romance

Jane Danver has no memory of her first seven years at her family’s ancestral estate on the isolated island of Danmoor. Now eighteen, she has been summoned home by her guardian to the place that still lives in her nightmares and fills her with terror.

Tyrannical Charles Danver instills fear in the local villagers. His ne’er-do-well son, Brence, both frightens and attracts Jane, and the mysterious French housekeeper spies on her. Jane has only one mysterious Jamintha, who believes that something is dangerously amiss at the mansion.

As Jane’s memory starts to return—with the help of handsome, dedicated Dr. Gavin Clark—she journeys back to a time and place that have left their mark on her forever. But deadly peril waits within the ruins of the house’s west wing—an evil that could keep Jane from ever leaving Danver Hall again.

Genres: Gothic, Romance

288 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1975

About the author

Jennifer Wilde is a pseudonym of T. E. Huff (Thomas Elmer Huff). He also wrote under the names Edwina Marlow and Beatrice Parker.

Reviews

[Joyce Sheffield · Rating 2 out of 5]

a fun fairytale!

I did actually read what seemed like a fairytale where the dull girl becomes a princess in the end. Plenty of bad people and murders and scary haunted halls. It was fun and quick.

[Sarah Mck · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book when I was, maybe 16. I borrowed it from the Library, then afterwards I went on a hunt to find a copy of it to buy, I had to own it. It wasn't until years latter I stumbled on it at a Sunday marketplace. It totally took my breath away especially as a 16 year old. I didn't know until then that books could absorb you so much, or shock you so much. I remember having to take my brother to the doctors, and I took the book and read the entire way. Into the car, on the drive, at the doctors, and on the way home. I plan to re-read it again now that Im older and I hopefully will discover that same enthusiasm I felt for the book now as I did then.

[Debbie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book. It has mystery, romance, and a Victorian setting all wrapped up with a pretty bow. The characters were well written and developed, and the author's descriptions of the various settings really let the reader envision it as though they were in the book themselves. I first read this by plucking it of my sister's shelf when I was bored 40 years ago. I wish I still had it today to read over. It was that enjoyable that I've often wished that.