After years of living in an orphanage, Joy Standish's job at the magnificent summer home of Dr. Barrett Montgomery surpassed any of her dreams. Despite the fact that Dr. Montgomery was a mysteriously irascible old man, assisting him with his anci...
It began on a hotel balcony in Geneva, Switzerland -- and it ended in a Victorian summer home on a lake in Michigan. It was a strange ending for a sandy-haired, green-eyed girl who had dreamed for years of taking a tour of Europe with her best friend...
The trip to the little town of Willow Creek was less than a hundred miles, but for pretty, raven-haired Amy Glenn, it seemed a journey to another world. Amy was convinced that she was a big city girl, that her future lay with handsome Detroit law...
Linnet Calhoun was happily engaged to handsome young executive Matt Douglas when a tattered newspaper clipping ripped her life in two. Linnet had been raised by foster parents, and suddenly she learned that her real mother's death was cloaked in ...
It seemed like a gift from heaven when young Laurie Grey inherited a house from an elderly man who used to visit the library where she worked. But when Laurie arrived to take possession, she learned she was heiress as well to a legacy of suspicion an...
It seemed that pretty young Ann Edwards was always being asked to help with other people's problems. But when she heard the frightened voice of a mother asking her to take care of a little girl, Ann knew this was no simple domestic dilemma, but a...
To young and pretty Dana Chapman, the little town of Rowley meant happiness. Here she had spent her girlhood, raised by her widowed, French-born mother, Amabel. And here she was returning to tell Amabel that she was marrying handsome Neal Shannon, wh...
When handsome stranger Adam Fiske walked into her life, Valerie Carew fell head over heels in love. Adam claimed he was a professor visiting Val's home town for historical research, but it seemed more than a coincidence that his arrival came at t...
To Nan Bentham, a young American girl traveling in Europe, the job as companion to Lady Judith Trevelyan seemed ideal. But from the moment she accepted Lady Trevelyan's offer to accompany her to her childhood home, strange and alarming things beg...
The cup of happiness seemed dashed from Meg Morris's lips forever when the young heiress learned that the man she adored was more interested in her money than in her. Meg fled the scene of this betrayal -- to a place where no one knew about her a...
The mansion of Oakhurst was a haven or rare elegance in the still-primitive Kentucky of 1806 -- but Rowan Chandler traveled there with dread. Recently orphaned, she was coming to live with relatives she barely knew, and entering a way of life that w...
The journey from a beautiful manor house in eighteenth century England to the unknown world of colonial America was a painful one for Paget Carlyle. Scarred by the memory of the fire that had destroyed her aristocratic birthright, forced to work as a...
Attractive Amanda Whitby was thrilled about being asked to paint a portrait of young Edwin Bayne. Talented as she was, she felt lucky in getting the commission, lucky in being able to spend a week on a remote off-shore island in the Gulf of Mexico. A...
Young and well-born Eleanor Talbot was caught up in a whirligig of fortune that left her mind spinning and her emotions in turmoil. One moment she was a friendless orphan seeking a position to support herself. The next, she was a glittering heiress i...
It was at the mansion of Oakhurst in Kentucky that the recently orphaned Rowan Chandler started a new life with her rich relatives in 1806. It was here too that Rowan met the strangely secretive widower, Simon White, who soon became the focus of her ...
Bizarre events occurred rapidly as Beath Leigh began to settle in the Nova Scotia estate. She was told the legendary bagpipes she heard were a death knell and were only heard by the next person to die. Then one evening they played for her -- loud and...
FROM OUT OF THE PAST Stanley Keys held the little town of Keysville. Maine, in an iron grip. He owned the town and controlled the lives of everyone who lived there. As a young man he had been popular with the townspeople, but twenty years had made...