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« on: December 15, 2011, 01:47:38 AM »
Wow! The Ross books. I bought them all at the time, still have them around someplace. The first five focus on Victoria Winters' search for her true origin. She never quite gets answers, manages to get herself killed numerous times and attracts enough male attention to make Carolyn Stoddard look like Doris Day.
Ross also gives the Collins family several new additions. There is Ernest Collins, a concert violinist who is killed in a plane crash, kind of like Burke Devlin. He also gives Roger and Elizabeth a brother, for one book anyway. Brother Mark is a professional hypnotist and chooses to go by the name of Mark Veno. This might have been away to explain the background of the 1991 Daphne Collins but Mark's daughter is named Linda.
In most of the books Barnabas' servant is named Hare. Deaf, mute and kind of nasty, he spends a lot of time snarling at the various ingenues. Willie, Julia and Eliot don't appear until after HODS. The one time that Angelique appears in the flesh, her appearance is nothing like Lara Parker. Kind of a low budget version of Sophia Loren.
For a small town, collinsport is overrun with gothic mansions. There seems to be a new one in every book.
Good luck completing your collection. But you shouldn't have to pay an arm and a leg for them. Used bookstores usually have a couple