The Cruel Dark Bea Northwick Publication date: October 31st 2023 Genres: Adult, Gothic, Romance Millicent Foxboro is haunted. Not by ghosts, but by the anguish of her past and the uncertainty of her future. After all, even in the progressive year of 1928, most people would balk at hiring a woman who’d spent two months in a mental ward for traumatic amnesia. So when an uncommon assistantship to a reclusive Professor of mythology falls into her lap with an ungodly salary attached, her desperation for stability overrides her cautious nature. To Millie’s dismay, the widowed Professor Callum Hughes and his estate, Willowfield, are more than she bargained for. The once magnificent home, known for its sprawling gardens and dazzling parties, is falling to pieces after the death of the professor’s fragile wife. What’s more, the staff has been reduced to the only three people not frightened away by rumors of ghosts, leaving the halls empty and languishing in bitter memories. The prof...

Show Girl turned “Tiger Woman”.   Before Carol Baskin and Joe Exotic ended up with the titles of “The Tiger King/ Woman” there was another female in the 1920s whose crime earned her the nickname “Tiger Woman”. This female captured my attention recently as we had the same surname as Phillips and she was killed in the name of love, she lived with the justification “if I can’t have you to myself, then no other female will have you”.   However, instead of killing her husband, she decided to kill his mistress – a young bank teller. I wonder if country singer Dolly Parton thinks about this as her husband had an affair with a bank teller and instead of choosing the route of murder like our killer Clara Phillips, Dolly chose to write and release a song which to this day has earned her millions. Looking back at things, our killer was still a child herself when she was swept off her feet by Armour Phillips, a handsome and charming man who was ambitious and aspired to become an...