Phyllis A. Whitney

When her adoptive parents die in a train crash in Italy, writer Courtney Marsh becomes more determined than ever to find her roots. She was mysteriously abandoned when she was just an infant, and she never knew the truth about her biological parents. The only clues to her past are a golden unicorn pendant she’s had all her life and a tattered newspaper clipping about an artist who hailed from one of the most prominent yet reclusive East Hampton...

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

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.

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...

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.

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.

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...

A governess becomes entangled with a dysfunctional and dangerous family in this novel. Finally liberated from her cruel and domineering mother, twenty-eight-year-old schoolteacher Jessica Abbott has accepted a position as governess in Hampden House, a crumbling plantation on the cliffs of St. Croix. Her charge is Leila Drew, the oppressed teenage daughter of a pathologically punishing mother. But the vulnerable girl is not Catherine Drew's only victim....

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.

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...