The legend of Annie Palmer, the plantation mistress and White Witch, is vividly recounted in this supernatural tale of nineteenth-century Jamaica. Having come to Jamaica to learn the planting business, Robert Rutherford becomes a bookkeeper at the Rosehall sugar plantation near Montego Bay. The property is owned by the beautiful yet fearsome young widow Annie Palmer, whose three husbands have all died under curious circumstances. And very soon, Robert finds himself falling under the spell of his mistress. Robert’s housekeeper Millicent urges him, with some success, to fall in with West Indian habits. But Mrs. Palmer won’t have another woman competing for Robert’s attention and will resort to voodoo witchcraft to get what she wants. Originally published in 1929, this haunting tale of passion and betrayal draws readers into a dramatic, supernatural vision of colonial Jamaica in the early nineteenth century.

Originally published in serial form from 1922 - 1923 in Planter's Punch, The Devil's Mountain is a novel by Jamaican journalist, H.G. de Lisser.When an American moving picture company comes to stay at the Myrtle Bank Hotel, Lawrence Beaman, a humble local man, is captivated by the beautiful leading actress, Marian Braeme. Also taking a liking to Marian is the widowed Lady Rosedale, who aims to take the girl under her wing and teach her in the ways of proper society. Not one to be deterred and at the encouragement of another hotel patron, Mr. Phipps, Lawrence continues in his pursuit of Marian, until one night, when he can no longer hold back his feelings, declares that he is in love."I know it," she replies at last, "but I wish you hadn't said it. It's no use...it is impossible, you have no idea how impossible it is."When the conversation is over and the two go their separate ways, they awake the next morning to the news of a robbery at the Myrtle Bank...