Lingering Shadows — Nancy MacDougall Kennedy

Pretty Stephanie Nelson was a girl on the run--from her own past and the tragedy that she hoped to keep secret. For Stephanie had been accused of the murder of her own husband, and though the young widow was proven innocent, she feared that no one would believe the verdict.

Stephanie was far away now from her former home. She was a hard-working secretary to a handsome architect who was showing more and more interest in her. but Stephanie's dreams of love turned into a nightmare of dread when a figure from the past reappeared to shadow her life again. Not only scandal but physical danger threatened the terrified girl as she fought to free herself from an evil that would not die.