HOUSE OF MYSTERIES Amanda comes to Santa Fe still stunned by the tragic loss of her parents, too wrapped in her grief to notice at first the feeling of doom that pervades the elegant old house. Then suddenly she finds herself struggling in a ne...
My friend Elaine was a classic beauty. You almost had to look twice to be sure anything so lovely could be real. She had everything, wheat-gold hair that fell in thick waves to her shoulders, large thick-lashed eyes that were truly violet, an exquisi...
The Bride of Death Elizabeth’s whirlwind courtship and marriage to handsome, sophisticated Gregorio del Corso and their trip to meet his family in Funchal on the magnificent island of Madeira seemed like a dream come true. Until the drawbridg...
Unwilling to accept her parents’ choice of a husband, beautiful Estrellita de Peralta fled to the obscurity of companion-teacher to tomboy Jane Scott, whose brother Wayne wanted her to become a “lady.” At Borrunco Grande, their fortress-size ma...
House Party of Horrors..Could one of them want Midge dead? -- or did they all? Or was she losing her mind?...
Young, innocent Liz Chalmers was an Aries, born to be impetuous and daring. Her fate seemed sealed as the small plane touched down at Sea Crag where she was to meet the man to whom she would be married. There was no way in or out of this estate in...
There she was… “It was a huge painting, a portrait of a woman standing full-length against a background of misty trees and shadowed garden. Her white dress cut low, and swirled in soft folds around her feet. Her arms held roses; two of them ha...
When personal tragedy shattered her dreams, Jennifer had to begin life anew. She accepted a job on the island of Madeira -- in a beautiful castle high in the mountains off the African coast. She was to be the companion of the aged Dona Christina. ...
Nice old Mrs. Roderick…She wouldn’t hurt a soul. That’s what Checkers Paget thought the day she arrived in Stillson. Pour Checkers…how was she to know. Aunt Dierdre sought a home that would be appropriate. It was Ransome Castle. Meg Stuart...
There was something about Chlorinda's eyes...hypnotic...piercing...spell binding. You'll learn, as Libby did, to never look into those mysterious eyes. Darkness came over Dune House and the moon showed faintly through the ghostly clouds th...
I OPENED THE DOOR TO THE STAIRS... and then stood dead-still. Coming down those stairs, slowly, waveringly, was a -- was a what? A skeleton? A man? Was he -- could he -- be alive and real? That face! Hollow-cheeked, hollow-eyed, a bulging, shiny ...
Aunt Dierdre sought a home that would be appropriate. It was Rancome Castle. Meg Stuart, her niece, was an invited guest on her first trip away from home. To tell you more would spoil the tale of screaming, panic, and blood chilling fear....
Someone had a talent for murder... At loose ends after the death of her poet father, young Elizabeth Wainwright left her native Boston and drove across the continent to join a small, hand-picked group of young people in an isolated, West Coast comm...
Janet Lowry believed she had at last found a haven from loneliness and despair with her cousins Addie, Mary and Elizabeth Hamlin. But within the bleak walls of their house lay a treacherous secret, for there was something profoundly sinister about th...