Phyllis A Whitney
1) Rainsong
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Who could want to torment Hollis in the long corridors of Windtop, especially since her husband, the famous popular singer Ricky Sands had killed himself months ago.
3) Snowfire
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860L
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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...
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...
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From a New York Times–bestselling author: In a lakeside mansion, a beautiful young bride becomes the snowbound prisoner of a dark family secret.
When Manhattan art curator Diana Blake married gallery owner Glen Chandler, she was certain she knew him well enough to devote the rest of her life to him. He was the son of a renowned artist; he sculpted things of beauty in alabaster; and he loved her. It was only...
When Manhattan art curator Diana Blake married gallery owner Glen Chandler, she was certain she knew him well enough to devote the rest of her life to him. He was the son of a renowned artist; he sculpted things of beauty in alabaster; and he loved her. It was only...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
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920L
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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...
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Long before Sara came to San Francisco, the candle-lit figure in the mirror had haunted her dreams. But in the towering, old Varady mansion, where the sound of a kitten's mewing could make a domineering woman quake with fear, the nightmare turned into reality. Against the backdrop of San Francisco at the time of the Great Fire, Phyllis Whitney spins a dramatic tale of intrigue and romance - the gripping story of a young woman caught between love and...
9) Flaming tree
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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.
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810L
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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
...11) Amethyst dreams
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
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800L
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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...
12) Star flight
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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...
14) Dream of orchids
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
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920L
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A young woman's trip to Florida to meet her estranged father brings intrigue, sunken treasure, and a new love to Laurel's life.
15) Lost island
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An island off the Georgia coast holds the memory of a broken heart and the secrets of a woman's past. It's been years since Lacey Ames last saw Hampton Island, where she grew up amid the sandy marshes with her childhood sweetheart, Giles Severn, and her cousin Elise-and where Elise had stolen the man Lacey loved. Lacey never forgot the hurt and betrayal she once suffered at Giles's grand family home of Sea Oaks, but a curious and compelling summons...
16) Silverhill
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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.
17) Poinciana
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The Palm Beach home of Ross Logan contains his celebrated collection of oriental art, and a prized new possession -- his terrified young bride.... Adorning the Florida coastline stands Poinciana, the fabulous mansion of the Logan family. Inside its regal walls a volcano of intrigue and violent emotion has begun to erupt, and not one of the Logans is safe. Especially not Sharon Hollis Logan, the lovely young bride of patriarch Ross Logan. For reasons...
19) Hunter's green
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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.
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A reclusive actress is brought back into the spotlight-by murder-in this novel by a New York Times–bestselling and Edgar award–winning author. Leigh Hollins had no choice but to honor her father's dying wish: that she find her estranged mother, now living in seclusion in Norway, and reconcile with her. Leigh's mother, Laura Worth, was once one of the most dynamic movie stars in the world, her films eclipsed only by her real life, which was filled...