Abbotsford House Abbotsford House Abbotsford is a historic country house in the Scottish Borders, near Melrose, on the south bank of the River Tweed. It was formerly the residence of historical novelist and poet, Sir Walter Scott. It is a Category A Listed Building. The nucleus of the estate was a small farm of , called Cartleyhole, nicknamed Clarty (i.e., muddy) Hole, and was bought by Scott on the lapse of his lease (1811) of the neighbouring house of Ashestiel. He first built a small villa and named it Abbotsford, creating the name from a ford nearby where previously abbots of Melrose
The House on Black Lake The House on Black Lake The House on Black Lake is a contemporary gothic suspense/romance novel by American author Anastasia Blackwell published by Creative Revolution in 2010. It is set in the underworld of Montreal society. Set in an enclave of summer homes for the power elite in the outskirts Montreal, the story follows world-weary American Alexandra Brighton as she travels with son Samuel to the home of Ruth and Ramey Sandeley. On the night of their arrival the mother and child stay in a dilapidated Victorian set on an island on Black Lake. Alexandra’s night of terror there sets