Phyllis A Whitney
2) Flaming tree
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On the California coast, a physical therapist unlocks a young boy's terrible secrets, in this novel from " the Grand Master of her craft" (Barbara Michaels). In search of solitude in the wake of her son's tragic death, recently divorced physical therapist Kelsey Stewart accepts an invitation to stay at her aunt Elaine's seaside inn in Carmel, California. No sooner does Kelsey arrive than she becomes moved by another tragedy: On a bright sunny day,...
3) Spindrift
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New York Times bestseller: A New Year s Eve suicide in a Newport mansion could be hiding a sinister family conspiracy. Was it fear of scandal, threat of disgrace, or loss of his job that drove Rhode Island newspaper magnate Adam Keene to take his own life? His daughter, Christy, refuses to accept her father s death as a suicide. When she returns to her mother-in-law Theodora s stately Newport mansion, Christy is determined to find out who killed her...
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A bookseller reunites with her estranged, enigmatic father in Key West in this suspenseful novel by a New York Times -bestselling author. Twenty-five years ago, Long Island bookstore owner Laurel York was abandoned by her father, author Clifton York. Ever since, she's followed his life and career with morbid resentment. When Clifton's collaborator shows up in her shop with the gift of an orchid, she reluctantly agrees to accompany him back to Key...
5) Sea jade
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From a New York Times- bestselling author: In nineteenth-century New England, a desperate young woman's only refuge becomes an inescapable trap. It was fitting that Miranda Heath's first glimpse of the forbidding home at Bascomb's Point was in the fury of a thunderstorm. Despite her late father's caution to steer clear of his friend Obadiah Bascomb's New England mansion, Miranda, destitute as she was, had no choice but to accept the old captain's...
6) Snowfire
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A chilling tale of murder and secrets set against the treacherous slopes of a ski lodge--from "the queen of the American gothics-(The New York Times). Linda Earle's stepbrother had a bright future. An aspiring athlete, he was being mentored by championship skier Julian McCabe, but then his career was cut short when he was accused of murdering Julian's wife, Margot. Convinced of his innocence and determined to clear his name, Linda takes a job as après-ski...
7) Silversword
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In the Hawaiian Islands, a divorcée is threatened by a dangerous deception from her past, in this novel from "a superb and gifted storyteller"(Mary Higgins Clark). Hawaiian-born Caroline Kirby was only six years old when her parents died under mysterious circumstances, and she was shuttled off to live with her grandmother in San Francisco. Now, after years under the strict governance of the old woman, followed by an unhappy marriage, the young,...
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The mysterious death of a prima ballerina raises haunting and sinister questions for her twin sister in this novel from a master of suspense (Mary Higgins Clark). Schoolteacher Jenny McClain is looking forward to a bright future with her new husband, Brandon, in their glorious new home at the McClain family s Catskill estate in the Shawangunk Mountains. But Jenny can t forget her past ... It was the night her twin sister, Ariel, threatened suicide....
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From a New York Times -bestselling author: In nineteenth-century Manhattan, a young woman is hired to care for a child haunted by murder. Having just lost her brother and mother in a tragic accident, dressmaker Megan Kincaid has never felt so vulnerable and alone. Then comes the startling request from the wealthy Brandon Reid of Washington Square to work as a private caretaker to his violently tempered nine-year-old stepson, Jeremy. Megan reluctantly...
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From a New York Times bestselling author: In a lakeside mansion, a beautiful young bride becomes the snowbound prisoner of a dark family secret. When Manhattan art curator Diana Blake married gallery owner Glen Chandler, she was certain she knew him well enough to devote the rest of her life to him. He was the son of a renowned artist; he sculpted things of beauty in alabaster; and he loved her. It was only when Glen took her home to his family s...
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A retreat to Greece becomes a dangerous trap for a grieving and haunted widow in this novel from "a superb and gifted storyteller" (Mary Higgins Clark). Ever since Dorcas Brandt's husband, Gino Nikkaris, died in a plane crash, she's been beset by troubling suspicions that his shady intrigues in the art world may have been the cause of his death. Desperate for both a new future and answers to the questions about Gino's past, Dorcas whisks her daughter...
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From a New York Times bestselling author: After the Civil War, a young Confederate bride finds herself living in the shadow of her husband s first love. Having lost her fianc in battle, Lora Blair knew it was the heartache of war, not true love, that drew her to Union soldier Wade Taylor, a grieving widower who still mourned his late wife, Virginia. Married quickly in the ravished little Southern border town where Lora was born, they headed back...
13) Skye Cameron
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From a New York Times bestselling author: In New Orleans, a young woman uncovers a family conspiracy only to find solace in a man with a dangerous past. In nineteenth-century New England, flame-haired Skye Cameron was proud to be named for the misty island in the Scottish Hebrides where her father had been born but it was the Creole heritage of her seductive mother, Louise, that would determine her destiny. In the wake of her father s death, with...
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Three haunting novels of romantic suspense from the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Awardwinning Queen of the American gothics ( The New York Times ). A trio of spellbinding thrillers from the Grand Master of her craft (Barbara Michaels) and a superb and gifted storyteller (Mary Higgins Clark). Window on the Square : Megan Kincaid lives in a house of secrets on Washington Square in New York City. Hired by romantic and wealthy Brandon Reid as...
15) Columbella
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A governess becomes entangled with a dysfunctional and dangerous family in this novel by a New York Times -bestselling " master of suspense" (Mary Higgins Clark). Finally liberated from her cruel and domineering mother, twenty-eight-year-old schoolteacher Jessica Abbott has accepted a position as governess in Hampden House, a crumbling plantation on the cliffs of St. Croix. Her charge is Leila Drew, the oppressed teenage daughter of a pathologically...
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A trio of romantic spellbinders from a New York Times bestselling and Edgar Awardwinning master of suspense (Mary Higgins Clark). Three atmospheric psychological thrillers from the undisputed Queen of the American gothics ( The New York Times ). Woman Without a Past : Popular mystery novelist Molly Hunt has just made a stunning discovery: She's the daughter of South Carolina blue bloods and was kidnapped as an infant from their plantation in Charleston....
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Hunter's Green: When Eve North returns to Athmore, it's to win back the love of her estranged husband, Justin. But she's dangerously unaware of the secrets in the sprawling English estate-and the motives of those who protect them, including Justin's brother, who once preyed on Eve's emotions; Justin's manipulative new fiancée; and Justin himself. Eve's only ally appears to be the old family gardener who has carved from the green-black yew a magnificent...
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The Turquoise Mask: Manhattan illustrator Amanda Austin is summoned to her grandfather's Santa Fe hacienda to get to know distant relatives of her late mother, who died years ago under mysterious circumstances. But once there, everyone greets her like an unwelcome guest. After a little investigating, she begins to fear the real reason she was invited…
The Trembling Hills: In 1906, Sara Bishop is off to San Francisco to win back her childhood sweetheart,...
19) Star flight
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A movie star's suicide draws a young woman into the deadly shadows of a Hollywood scandal in this novel from "a master of suspense-(Mary Higgins Clark). More than fifty years ago, Victoria Frazer and Roger Brandt were the most popular stars of the silver screen--until a notorious and tragic love affair on set in the Appalachians destroyed their lives. It was there, at the foot of Rumbling Bald Mountain in Lake Lure, North Carolina, where Victoria...
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A psychic investigates a mysterious disappearance high in the Appalachian Mountains in this novel from a Grand Master of her craft (Barbara Michaels). It s a legacy Christy Loren never wanted. The unwitting inheritor of her mother s psychic gifts, the Long Island librarian assists in police investigations, but they ve become too hard for her to bear. Too many victims. Too many shallow graves. So she s fled to the peaceful foothills of the Blue Ridge...
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