Witches' Cove

"I am NOT a witch!"

Regina Widden stirred restlessly in her bed as she fought to pull herself out of her nightmare...

At last, she opened her eyes and found that she was on a narrow cot in a small cottage. She turned to see a candle in a pewter holder burning on a wooden table beside her.

Suddenly, the door burst open and a young girl rushed in. Regina recognized her friend, Peggy.

"Regina Blake! You must get away from here at once!"

"Where am I?"

"Where else but in your mother's cottage?"

"My mother's cottage? What do you mean, Peggy?"

The other girl gasped and stepped back, "Peggy?" My name is Sarah. If you can forget the name of your dearest friend, then truly the Devil must have taken possession of you!"

Marilyn Ross is the pseudonym for William Edward Daniel "W.E.D." Ross (November 16, 1912 - November 1, 1995) was a Canadian actor, playwright and bestselling writer of more than 300 novels in a variety of genres. He was known for the speed of his writing and was by some estimates the most prolific Canadian author ever, though he did not take up fiction until middle age. He wrote popular romances and gothic fiction as W. E. D. Ross and Dan Ross and under a variety of mostly female pseudonyms. As Marilyn Ross, he wrote popular gothic fiction including a series of novels about the tormented vampire, Barnabas Collins, based on the American TV series Dark Shadows (1966-71). His second wife, Marilyn, served as first reader of his works, and "Marilyn Ross" was one of his favorite pseudonyms.