Phyllis A Whitney

In 1938, Hollywood's most beloved glamour girl drowned during a scandalous love affair. Now her granddaughter Lauren has been drawn into the past by the death of her husband at the same ill-fated lake.

The mysterious death of a prima ballerina raises haunting and sinister questions for her twin sister. Schoolteacher Jenny McClain is looking forward to a bright future with her new husband, Brandon, in their glorious new home at the McClain family's Catskill estate in the Shawangunk Mountains. But Jenny forgot her past . . . It was the night her twin sister, Ariel, threatened suicide. An emotional ballerina in Swan Lake, Ariel's sanity was known...

A psychic investigates a mysterious disappearance high in the Appalachian. It's a legacy Christy Loren never wanted. The unwitting inheritor of her mother's psychic gifts, the Long Island librarian assists in police investigations, but they've become too hard for her to bear. Too many victims. Too many shallow graves. So she's fled to the peaceful foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains to stay with her aunt Nona. But Christy is soon drawn back into...

In search of solitude in the wake of her son's tragic death, recently divorced physical therapist Kelsey Stewart accepts an invitation to stay at her Aunt Elaine's seaside inn in Carmel, California. No sooner does Kelsey arrive than she becomes moved by another tragedy: On a bright sunny day, local boy Jody Hammond fell from the Point Lobos cliff into the pounding waves of the Pacific and was left with a devastating brain injury. He now stares into...

In a secluded home on Long Island, a musician's mysterious suicide haunts his terrified wife, in this novel by a New York Times–bestselling author. In the wake of the shocking suicide of popular singer Ricky Sands, his wife and professional partner, Hollis Temple, wants only to escape the notoriety-and the relentless questions she can't even begin to answer. Rescued from the press by family friend Alan Gordon, Hollis leaves Manhattan for Cold Spring...

Laurie Phillips is summoned to a historic seaport town after her best friend disappears without a trace, leaving behind a critically ill grandfather and suspicious group of relatives who now stand to inherit his money.

Hunter's Green: When Eve North returns to Athmore, it's to win back the love of her estranged husband, Justin. But she's dangerously unaware of the secrets in the sprawling English estate-and the motives of those who protect them, including Justin's brother, who once preyed on Eve's emotions; Justin's manipulative new fiancée; and Justin himself. Eve's only ally appears to be the old family gardener who has carved from the green-black yew a magnificent...

Window on the Square: Megan Kincaid lives in a house of secrets on Washington Square in New York City. Hired by romantic and wealthy Brandon Reid as his stepson's caretaker, she knows the boy's violent history-one the Reid family has tried to bury. But their mysterious past runs deeper and more dangerous than she realized. Now, as Megan slowly unravels the truth behind a tragic murder, she's torn between a child she must save, a man she's come to...

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 Glen took her home to his family's...

Ever since Dorcas Brandt's husband, Gino Nikkaris, died in a plane crash, she's been beset by troubling suspicions that his shady intrigues in the art world may have been the cause of his death. Desperate for both a new future and answers to the questions about Gino's past, Dorcas whisks her daughter away to the Greek island of Rhodes. Among Gino's family, friends, and former colleagues-and a kindhearted American named Johnny-Dorcas hopes to find...