And then suddenly beautiful Bianca Trael had nothing. Within hours her husband had turned against her, and her blissful marriage had been rined by the most degrading of scandals.It seemed impossible, but it had happened-and it was only the beginning of Bianca's nightmare. For the evil that had crushed her marriage now followed her to a town house in a quiet Washington suburb...a house in which trusted firends became enemies...and an unknown secret held her only chance for survival...

    A Search for Her Past.When pretty Amy Dalton arrived at Falcon Hill to reunite with her family, the eerie magnificence of the old plantation hung over her like a sinister shroud.How had her sister mysteriously disappeared? Why did her mother refuse to recognize her? What were the ghostly sounds that terrorized her nights?Even the thrill of a new romance seemed threatened with disaster as Amy's every move was shadowed by those determined to bury forever the horrifying secret of Falcon Hill.

    But her charge, Todd Hawk, was a strange and frightened child, obsessed with guilt for his brother Oliver's death.Todd's handsome, tormented father, Arthur Hawk, had banished all trace of Oliver from his home -- but someone in the household was dedicated to keeping the boy's memory alive.Swept up by emotions she could not control, Stella fought desperate to solve the mystery behind Oliver's death -- only to find herself an unwanted intruder, prey to the evil that haunted Hawk House...

    WHO WAS THE NAMELESS, FACELESS MENACE OF SHADOW GLEN?Her foster mother's deathbed confession, and a strange, sudden twist of fate forced Jane Randell to return to Shadow Glen, a forbidding castle on the Hudson River, to live with strangers.Soon after her arrival, she became aware of the chilling fear, the deceit and ominous whispers that hovered in the castle's rooms.Then she realized that her life was in danger as the evil from out of the past reared its hideous head -- and the secret of Shadow Glen was revealed before Jane's horrified eyes!