Phyllis A Whitney
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When Susan Prentice returns to her childhood home in Virginia 25 years after witnessing the death of her mother, Dolores, she wishes only to become reacquainted with her formidable grandmother, Alex, a former ballerina. But Susan finds herself isolated in a hostile environment, her relatives obviously fearful that she might recall hitherto repressed memories of the tragedy. Alex is correct but reserved, while her eccentric cousin Theresa is openly...
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Molly Hunt, a successful novelist, is surprised to discover that she had an unknown twin sister living in Charleston, South Carolina. At the historic family plantation, she meets her beautiful and fragile twin, Amelia, their reclusive mother, and a cast of intriguing and disturbing characters who both question her identity and, in their way, confirm it. For her arrival has set in motion a series of strange and frightening events. In the intoxicating...
5) Star flight
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While visiting her grandfather in North Carolina, Lauren Castle learns about the alleged suicide of her famous movie actress grandmother more than sixty years ago--Novelist.
6) Rainsong
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Her husband was a famous rock singer: his death was a mystery. Now someone was trying to drive her mad.
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A rich man summons Hallie Knight of California to his estate in North Carolina to find his missing granddaughter, Susan. Hallie and Susan were best friends. For Hallie this is a dangerous assignment as the family think Susan is dead and fear the dying grandfather will give the estate to Hallie. By the author of Daughter of the Stars.
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Lacey Elliot has been a woman without a past since the day her mother whisked her off to Charlottesville, refusing for thirty years to speak of her father, her family or her history. But when Lacey intercepts a desperate letter from an aunt in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, she sees her chance to confront the past that has terrified her mother and to fill in the gaps in her own life.
Against the charm and the colorful, turbulent history of
...12) Flaming tree
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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, local boy Jody Hammond fell from the Point Lobos cliff into the pounding waves of the Pacific and was left with a devastating brain injury. He now stares into...
13) Thunder Heights
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To Camilla, the trip up the Hudson to the Gothic mansion named Thunder Heights was a return to the home that had never been hers. Now her grandfather is a sick old man, anxious to make his peace with her before he dies. Impending danger, strange crosscurrents, and shadowy terror await her...
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After the war between the states had destroyed all she held dear, Lora married wounded Union soldier Wade Tyler. She accompanies him to his estate on the island of Manhattan, but all is not as it seems at Wade's boyhood home. Wade is estranged from his young son, and there is the tragic drowning of Wade's first wife which haunts the Tyler household.
17) Spindrift
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1975.
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English
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On coming home from being hospitalized for a nervous breakdown after her beloved father's alleged suicide, Christy Moreland finds her marriage deteriorating, with her husband Joel and small son under the influence of her ruthless, domineering mother-in-law, Theo. When Theo reopens Spindrift, the mansion that was the scene of the suicide, Christy becomes the victim of incidents designed to drive her from Spindrift or into insanity.
18) Columbella
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Doubleday
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1966.
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English
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"When she arrived at her Aunt Janet's lovely Caribbean hotel, Jessica Abbott had left nothing of value behind: her parents were dead, she had resigned her job as a schoolteacher, and there'd been no true love in her life. But Maud Hampden had plans for Jessica. A wealthy matriarch, Maud saw in Jessica the perfect companion for her granddaughter, Leila, and a perfect antidote to Leila's wild, promiscuous mother, Catherine. Clearly, Jessica was expected...
19) Silversword
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Doubleday
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1987.
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English
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After being raised by her grandmother, Caroline returns to Hawaii to find out what happened on the day her parents died.
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G.K. Hall
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1989.
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A Chicago department store is the scene of gruesome crime in this mystery by a New York Times-bestselling Edgar Award winner. Linell Wynn, copywriter for Chicago department store Cunningham's, knows how to put a clever spin on everything. But she's at a loss for words when, after closing time, she finds a corpse in a window display. There he is, as cold and lifeless as a mannequin, his skull pulverized with a golf club: valued store manager Michael...