Morgan’s Castle
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Publication Date: January 16, 2026
180 pages
4.25 x 7 inches
ISBN: 9781550656985
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Ebook $8.99 |
Charlotte Morgan is both the wealthiest and most beautiful woman in all of Greenwood, Ontario, a mid-sized town on the Niagara Peninsula. Her impressive, expansive home, Hilltop House—known locally as “Morgan’s Castle”—was made possible through the family’s highly profitable vineyards. Charlotte has little to do with the business—she is very much a woman of leisure—so why has the strong-willed matriarch of the Morgan clan hired wholly unqualified sixteen-year-old Laura Dean as her secretary? And why is Charlotte so intent on having the girl live with her and her recently widowed son at Morgan’s Castle? All too soon Laura finds herself caught in the undercurrents of evil that emanates from the rambling structure of a house divided.
First published in 1964 by Abelard-Schumann, at which the author served as fiction editor. Morgan’s Castle combines family secrets and black humour of the darkest kind. This Ricochet Books edition marks the first new edition in nearly fifty years.
Reviews
“Morgan’s Castle stands on its own as humorous but deadly fiction.” – Ottawa Citizen
About the Author
Jan Hilliard was the pen name of Hilda Kay Grant (1910-1996). Born and raised in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, she studied at New York’s Grand Central School of Art and lived most of her adult life in Ontario. Her first book, The Salt Box (1951), based loosely on her childhood, was awarded a Stephen Leacock Medal. It was followed by five novels, the last being Morgan’s Castle (1964).
Brian Busby is Ricochet Books’ series editor. He is the author of A Gentleman of Pleasure: One Life of John Glassco, Poet, Translator, Memoirist and Pornographer (McGill-Queens, 2011) and editor of The Heart Accepts It All: Selected Letters of John Glassco (Véhicule Press, 2013).
Other books by Brian Busby: The Heart Accepts it all: Selected Letters of John Glassco
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