Phyllis Ayame Whitney
1) Poinciana
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A millionaire's Florida estate becomes a sinister trap for his bride in this classic gothic romance from "a superb and gifted storyteller" (Mary Higgins Clark). On the Florida coastline stands Poinciana, the Logan family's fabulous mansion. Inside its storied walls are the two most prized possessions of patriarch Ross Logan: his invaluable collection of Oriental art and, even more priceless, his new bride, Sharon. When Ross proposed, it seemed Sharon's...
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An American psychologist accepts an invitation to her estranged husband's isolated English estate in this suspenseful tale by an Edgar Award–winning author. When Eve North returns to Athmore after three years' estrangement from her husband, Justin, she finds the great and sprawling English estate-and Justin himself-considerably changed. But Eve has changed as well. She knows the mistakes she made in her marriage, is prepared to admit culpability...
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The wife of a scientist fights for her marriage-and her husband's sanity-in postwar Japan. When Jerome Talbot's brilliant career as an atomic physicist leads him once again to Japan, his wife, Marcia, knows it means yet another long separation, but she hopes to reunite with him soon. Confidently awaiting word to join him, she is blindsided when she receives a letter demanding divorce. Stunned and hurt, she leaves their home in Hawaii to confront Jerome...
4) Blue Fire
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A bride is swept up in family secrets and the blood diamond trade when she returns to South Africa in this novel by a New York Times-bestselling author. When Chicagoan Susan Hohenfield brings her new husband, Dirk, to her childhood home in Cape Town, it's with the innocence of a young girl. She remembers only the beauty of South Africa-and the pain of being abandoned by her father. Now, with a new perspective, she sees a country destroyed by apartheid....
5) Vermilion
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A New York designer is reunited with her estranged family in Arizona after her father's murder. Manhattan fashion designer Lindsay Phillips isn't surprised to hear her estranged father was beaten to death in a Las Vegas hotel room. A sordid end to a sordid life. What she knew about the reckless and philandering low-life wasn't pretty-least of all the way he treated her dying mother. But what does surprise Lindsay is the anonymous letter she receives...
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A woman investigates the mysterious death of her mother in Santa Fe in this New York Times bestseller. Between jobs and relationships, Manhattan illustrator Amanda Austin decides it's finally time to take her grandfather up on his request to visit him in Santa Fe. Near death and anxious to reconnect with his granddaughter, Juan Cordova has summoned her to New Mexico so she can get to know her late mother's relatives. Amanda hasn't been back since...
7) Black Amber
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A Manhattan editor investigates her sister's suspicious death in Istanbul. Tracy Hubbard, an up-and-comer at a prestigious New York City publisher, has arrived at a sprawling villa on the Bosporus strait in Istanbul for an enviable arrangement. She's come to assist celebrated artist Miles Radburn with his new book on the history of Turkish art. Everything Tracy has heard about the man turns out to be true: He's brooding, handsome, brilliant, short-tempered,...
8) Domino
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A woman is forced to face the tragedies of the past when she's summoned back to her Colorado home. An assistant editor at a Manhattan university press, Laurie Morgan forged a future in the best way she knew how. She buried her tragic past and her father's mysterious death so deeply it only returns in pieces of bad dreams. Then, out of the blue-and much to Laurie's surprise-she's invited to her childhood home in Colorado by her ailing, long-estranged...