Phyllis A Whitney

For several years, time has managed to separate Hallie Knight and her old friend Susan Trench, but when Susan disappears from her grandfather's seaside home, it is Hallie whom Nicholas Trench calls for help. Wealthy and ill, he refuses to believe that his 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 friend. When Hallie arrives, she finds the old man surrounded by...

The lush, secluded mountains of North Carolina's Lake Lure had drawn Lauren Castle into their spell. It was here, in 1938, that Hollywood's glamour girl, Victoria Frazer, drowned during a scandalous affair with actor Roger Brandt. Few knew about the baby spirited into the night. That baby was Lauren's mother. Just two years ago, Lauren's husband, returned to Lake Lure to film a documentary on Brandt, had himself died. Now Lauren has received a warning...

This is the story of Leigh Hollins, a young woman forced by her father's dying wish to face a past that had embittered her life. Leigh's father was a famed novelist, and her mother, a great actress of Hollywood's golden age. But they had never married. Leigh grew up without knowing her real mother-viewing the distant, romantic figure with bitterness and resentment. Her father's death, however, brought them together, as Leigh honored his deathbed...

Desperate to escape the visions she sees because of her inherited psychic abilities, Christy Loren flees to the mountains of Virginia.

A young woman's trip to Florida to meet her estranged father brings intrigue, sunken treasure, and a new love to Laurel's life.

Jenny Vaughan comes to Laurel House in the Catskill Mountains with her new husband, hoping to put the past behind her. But the past is not so easily buried.

Despite the locked doors and threats, Malinda Rice decides to remain at her mother's home at Silverhill and face the secrets and evil from the past.

Megan Kincaid accepts a position as governess to erratic young Jeremy Reid, nephew and stepson of Brandon Reid. Mysterious emotional undercurrents add to the feeling of eerie evil sensed by Megan in the dark house on Washington Square.

When lovely Miranda Heath, suddenly orphaned and penniless, turned for help to her father's old partner, Captain Bascomb, she found herself plunged into a whirlpool of intrigue and danger. From the moment of her arrival at the gloomy old Bascomb mansion in the small New England port of Scots Harbor, Miranda became the target of a strange and violent conspiracy. And only she could untangle the truth.

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...