Phyllis A Whitney

When mystery novelist Molly Hunt is stunned to learn that she is actually the daughter of the aristocratic Mountfort family, she travels to Charleston to unlock the secret of her past.

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

From the "Queen of the American gothics": In turn-of-the-century New York, a strange inheritance lures a vulnerable governess into a trap (The New York Times). Camilla King knows little of her family history, having never met her estranged relatives. Her late father wanted it that way. But when she receives a startling invitation from her immeasurably wealthy and ailing grandfather, Orrin Judd, to return to Thunder Heights, the crumbling mansion on...

For several years, time and circumstance have managed to separate Hallie Knight and her old friend Susan Trench. But when Susan disappears from her grandfather's seaside home on historic Topsail Island, it is Hallie whom Nicholas Trench calls for help. Wealthy, ill, and irascible, he refuses to believe that his beloved granddaughter and the heir to his fortune has been lost to him. He is certain that if anyone can find Susan, it will be her closest...

A woman is forced to face the tragedies of the past when she's summoned back to her Colorado home in this novel from "a master of suspense " (Mary Higgins Clark). An assistant editor at a Manhattan university press, Laurie Morgan forged a future in the best way she knew how. She buried her tragic past and her father's mysterious death so deeply it only returns in pieces of bad dreams. Then, out of the blue--and much to Laurie's surprise--she's invited...