Silent Portrait — Faith Cavandish

Hidden in the shadows of a woman's past lies the key to her future -- or a deadly legacy . . . . .

Claire Morton retains no memory of the shocking events that preceded her adoption twenty-one years ago. Now, summoned to San Francisco for the reading of her great-grandmother's will, Claire is confronted with the mother who deserted her in infancy and the twin sister she never knew existed.

Distressed by their undisguised animosity, ambivalent about the fortune she will share with the two women, Claire senses that their ramshackle Victorian home conceals a deadly secret. Yet her bewildering questions remain unanswered. How can Clair explain the powerful lure of the eerie painting that is somehow linked with her forgotten past? Andhow can she resist her desire for the man who arouses her passion even as his intense interest in her family provokes her suspicion?

As dim, long-buried memories begin to surface, Claire realizes with mounting terror and that someone -- mother, sister, lover -- intends that she will never claim her legacy. To save her own life, she must discover before it's too late the haunting secret behind her family's . . . .