Velda Johnston

The ringing phone awakens Carla. Alarmed, she hears her dead husband's voice saying, "Come back to me. I need you."

In search of her artist sister, Samantha flies to Italy to the centuries-old farmhouse her sister has been renting. A story of love, murder, and evil follows.

Deborah opposes the acting chief of police in her efforts to reopen a twenty-year-old murder case to clear her father's name, and stirs up a secret, violent enemy.

On a small island off North Carolina's coast, Kate Killigrew helps Martin Donnerly, an innocent paroled felon, find the real murderer of his promiscuous wife Donna Sue.

Wrongfully jailed for her dead exlover's murder, Sara escapes from prison. She now has a chance to find the real murderer and find lasting freedom.

Contemporary gothic novel in which the presence of Martin's first wife makes herself known to young Susan Hapgood, Martin's second wife.

An aspiring actress is hired as a companion by the Andexters, who ask her to impersonate Karen Andexter to her aged grandmother. Her growing conviction that their motives are not honest causes her to go in search of the vanished real Karen.