Barbara Michaels

An anthropology student working in a store in Virginia touches a haunted quilt and comes under its spell. As a result she falls in love with the owner's husband and is ready to kill to get him. By the author of Shattered Silk.

When Heather is denied entrance to a seventeenth-century manor she becomes determined to sneak in where she finds the reason behind the rumors of witchcraft and evil which haunt the estate.

Meg Venturi never expected the windfall she inherits when her grandfather dies. For some unknown reason the eccentric old millionaire has left her his profitable antique jewelry business. But there is a catch. Meg must share the business with an aloof, mysterious, and somewhat sinister young man called A. L. Riley. The town is whispering about her enigmatic new partner. Rumors spread about unspoken secrets, a dark and disturbing legacy . . . and murder....

Carla Tregellas had come to claim the ancient stone mansion that stood on the cliffs of Cornwall. Soon she was caught in a mysterious web that went back 200 years.

Devastated by her husband's death, Kathy Malone has traveled to his childhood home, hoping to come to terms with the recent tragedy. Here in the beautiful rolling hills of Tuscany, she seeks solace--and discovers something sinister instead. Befriending a lonely boy named Pietro--accepting the chilly hospitality of the aristocratic Contessa Morandini--Kathy begins to uncover the pieces of an ominous puzzle and hints of a deadly obsession. And now she...

By the light of a gilded moon, a mysterious black rainbow framed the huddled towers of Grayhaven Manor, a vision of ominous beauty that seemed to warn Megan O'Neill of a darkness within. As the estate's new governess, her apprehensions were banished by the welcome of the Mandeville family. But Megan's growing obsession for her handsome employer blinds her to the terrifying truth of Grayhaven.

Pat Robbins, a recent widow, is trying to make it alone with her 19-year-old son Mark. She has two fascinations, the old house next door, the twin of her own, and her new neighbors. Josef Friedrichs, with a haunted look, rebuffs all Pat's overtures of friendship. Even his daughter Kathy is warned to stay away from Mark-but the emotions of youth are strnog, and Mark and Kathy begin to meet secretly. Suddenly they are not alone. An unearthly presence...

Andrea Torgesen is certain that hard work is exactly what her younger brother Jim needs to help him recover from the trauma of a serious car accident-and turning a decrepit old mansion into a beautiful country inn seems to be the perfect project. But unearthly voices and eerie visions haunt Jim from almost the first instant he sets foot in the dreary old house. And his strange obsession with a long-neglected graveyard is most troubling to his concerned...

It begins as a lark -- a harmless diversion initiated by Washington, D.C., hostess Ruth Bennett as a means of entertaining her visiting niece, Sara. But the séance conducted in Ruth's elegant Georgetown home calls something back; something unwelcome ... and palpably evil. Suddenly Sara is speaking in a voice not her own, transformed into a miserable, whimpering creature so unlike her normal, sensible self. No tricks or talismans will dispel the malevolence...

A series of disturbing and increasingly threatening events turn Karen's dream of opening an antique clothing store into a nightmare.