Phyllis A Whitney
3) Star flight
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English
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Lauren Castle searches for the truth behind her husband's accidental death and her famous grandmother's suicide which seem to be inextricably linked.
5) Silversword
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English
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A young divorcee, Caroline Kirby, returns to Maui, where she had lived so contentedly as a child with her parents and her grandmother Joanna. She returns to face a secret hidden all these years and to find David, a childhood friend.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Hallie Knight is invited to Topsail Island by the ailing Nicholas Trench who wants her to try and find out what happened to his grandaughter Susan, a dear college friend of Hallie's who disappeared two years earlier, but there are people who are not pleased to have Hallie around and soon she begins to fear her own life is in danger.
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From the Edgar Award winning queen of the American gothics : A troubled girl in a remote mountain home grapples with a terrifying secret (The New York Times). New York clinical psychologist Lynn McLeod has never backed away from a child in need. But a plea for her services in Blue Ridge country tries Lynn s compassion. Ten-year-old Jilly is no random traumatized girl. She s the daughter of Lynn s unfaithful ex-husband, Stephen. Despite the turbulent...
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A psychic investigates a mysterious disappearance high in the Appalachian Mountains in this novel from a Grand Master of her craft (Barbara Michaels). 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...
10) Rainsong
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English
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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...
11) Flaming Tree
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English
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On the California coast, a physical therapist unlocks a young boy's terrible secrets, in this novel from " the Grand Master of her craft" (Barbara Michaels). 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,...
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Open Road Media Romance
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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From a New York Times bestselling author: After the Civil War, a young Confederate bride finds herself living in the shadow of her husband s first love. Having lost her fianc in battle, Lora Blair knew it was the heartache of war, not true love, that drew her to Union soldier Wade Taylor, a grieving widower who still mourned his late wife, Virginia. Married quickly in the ravished little Southern border town where Lora was born, they headed back...
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Publisher
Open Road Media Romance
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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From the New York Times bestselling master of suspense : A woman s mysterious past is unearthed during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake (Mary Higgins Clark). Sara Bishop was raised in Chicago, but her heart belongs in San Francisco, where her childhood sweetheart, Ritchie Temple, has moved to pursue a career in architecture. Convinced he feels the same way for her, she hopes his fianc e, the manipulative Judith Renwick, is just a passing fancy....
14) Lost Island
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Open Road Media Romance
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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From a New York Times 'bestselling author: An island off the Georgia coast holds the memory of a broken heart and the secrets of a woman's past. It's been years since Lacey Ames last saw Hampton Island, where she grew up amid the sandy marshes with her childhood sweetheart, Giles Severn, and her cousin Elise'and where Elise had stolen the man Lacey loved. Lacey never forgot the hurt and betrayal she once suffered at Giles's grand family home of Sea...
15) Spindrift
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Publisher
Open Road Media Romance
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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New York Times bestseller: A New Year s Eve suicide in a Newport mansion could be hiding a sinister family conspiracy. Was it fear of scandal, threat of disgrace, or loss of his job that drove Rhode Island newspaper magnate Adam Keene to take his own life? His daughter, Christy, refuses to accept her father s death as a suicide. When she returns to her mother-in-law Theodora s stately Newport mansion, Christy is determined to find out who killed her...
16) Sea Jade
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Publisher
Open Road Media Romance
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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From a New York Times- bestselling author: In nineteenth-century New England, a desperate young woman's only refuge becomes an inescapable trap. It was fitting that Miranda Heath's first glimpse of the forbidding home at Bascomb's Point was in the fury of a thunderstorm. Despite her late father's caution to steer clear of his friend Obadiah Bascomb's New England mansion, Miranda, destitute as she was, had no choice but to accept the old captain's...
17) Emerald
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Publisher
Open Road Media Romance
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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A woman heads to Palm Springs to stay with her great-aunt, a Hollywood star with a mysterious past, in this romantic suspense novel by an Edgar Award winner. Ever since New York journalist Carol Hamilton was a young girl, her great-aunt Monica Arlen has been for her the stuff of glittering, starry-eyed fantasy. Now, the reclusive movie star offers Carol an escape of another kind. In flight with her son from an abusive marriage, she's come to Monica's...
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Publisher
Open Road Media Romance
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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A retreat to Greece becomes a dangerous trap for a grieving and haunted widow in this novel from "a superb and gifted storyteller" (Mary Higgins Clark). 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...
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Publisher
Open Road Media Romance
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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From a New York Times -bestselling author: In nineteenth-century Manhattan, a young woman is hired to care for a child haunted by murder. Having just lost her brother and mother in a tragic accident, dressmaker Megan Kincaid has never felt so vulnerable and alone. Then comes the startling request from the wealthy Brandon Reid of Washington Square to work as a private caretaker to his violently tempered nine-year-old stepson, Jeremy. Megan reluctantly...
20) Thunder Heights
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Publisher
Open Road Media Romance
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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From the "Queen of the American gothics": In turn-of-the-century New York, a strange inheritance lures a vulnerable governess into a trap (The New York Times). Camilla King knows little of her family history, having never met her estranged relatives. Her late father wanted it that way. But when she receives a startling invitation from her immeasurably wealthy and ailing grandfather, Orrin Judd, to return to Thunder Heights, the crumbling mansion on...