Phyllis A. Whitney

While her mother battles a life-threatening illness, Lacey Elliot receives a letter from an unknown woman claiming to be her aunt, a piece of correspondence that unlocks dangerous secrets from the past.

Seven years after her three-year-old daughter has vanished, Jennifer Blake receives a telephone call saying the girl may be found living with a family on Vancouver Island.

When Glen Chandler first removed the combs from Dina's pale hair and said, "You're my winter girl," Dina seemed to surrender her will to him forever. She married Glen without even seeing High Towers, the remote Victorian estate whose windows, like eyes, still watched the lake where Glen's mother had once drowned. A summer person herself, Dina did not know that the Chandlers were winter people-as cold as the ice around High Towers. She did not know...

When Marcia Talbot receives the letter from her husband Jerome telling her that he wants a divorce, she acts quickly. She boards a plane to Japan, where Jerome has been working, confident that she can change his mind and bring him back home with her. But when she arrives, Marcia is no longer sure...of anything. Jerome is a stranger to her-a man obsessed with Japan and the mysterious work going on in his laboratory. He tells her only that he will...

Running from her brutal ex-husband, Carol Barclay seeks refuge with her aunt, a reclusive aging movie star, and is drawn into the seamier side of Hollywood where dangerous secrets are about to explode.

This story is set in present day England. Eve, young American wife of Justin North and narrator of the story, returns to her husband's English estate after a three-year separation from Justin who has now decided to divorce her and remarry. Eve determines to win back her husband's love, but a sinister turn of events seem to mark Eve for violent death.

Hoping to make sense out of her sister's tragic death, Tracy Hubbard travels to Turkey where she encounters a series of mysteries and danger.

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...

While visiting her aunt in Carmel, California, Kelsey Stewart is coaxed into helping a little boy, Jody, recover from his injuries but she soon begins to suspect that Jody's accident may not have been so accidental, leading her to suspect a dangerous cult.

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, newly single Caroline is anxious to return to the lush vistas of her island home. At first, Maui is even more splendid than she remembered, but soon, in the imposing...