Woman Without a Past - Softcover

Whitney, Phyllis A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1504046005 ISBN 13: 9781504046008

Publisher: Open Road Media Romance, 2017

Synopsis

From an Edgar and Agatha Award winner: A mystery writer must solve the puzzle of her past when she meets the South Carolina family she never knew existed.
 
Popular mystery novelist Molly Hunt knows all about the twists and turns of fiction, but real life has thrown her for a loop. Raised by adoptive parents on Long Island, Molly has just made a stunning discovery: She’s the daughter of South Carolina blue bloods and was kidnapped as an infant from their ancestral home in Charleston. Now, she’s heading south to solve the puzzle of her beginnings—totally unprepared for where it will end.
 
At Mountfort Hall, her birth family’s imposing plantation, Molly comes face to face with her past: her neglected twin sister; her reclusive and mentally imbalanced mother; a calculating cousin, now the Mountfort patriarch who has no tolerance for this lovely new intruder; and a resident psychic who sees into a deadly world all her own. It’s only when Molly discovers a letter from her late father that she comes to realize how much danger she’s in—and what it’ll take to escape the shadows of Mountfort Hall alive.
 
“In one of her smoothest suspense novels . . . Whitney combines a dynamic, likable heroine with eccentric characters, romantic entanglements, family ghosts and a charming setting” (Publishers Weekly). It’s everything readers expect from the “Queen of American gothics” (The New York Times).
 
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Phyllis A. Whitney including rare images from the author’s estate.
 

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Praise for Phyllis A. Whitney
“Phyllis A. Whitney is a superb and gifted story teller, and a master of suspense. Her contributions in this genre are legend.” —Mary Higgins Clark
 
“Phyllis Whitney has defined the romantic suspense genre, always adding her trademark touch of a carefully researched new locale or scene.” —The Anniston Star
 
“Whitney’s suspense is tighter, neater, better than ever.” —Kirkus Reviews on The Ebony Swan
 

About the Author

Born in Yokohama, Japan, on September 9, 1903, Phyllis A. Whitney was a prolific author of award-winning adult and children’s fiction. Her sixty-year writing career and the publication of seventy-six books, which together sold over fifty million copies worldwide, established her as one of the most successful mystery and romantic suspense writers of the twentieth century and earned her the title “The Queen of the American Gothics.”

Whitney resided in several places, including New Jersey. She traveled to every location mentioned in her books in order to better depict the settings of her stories. She earned the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master award in 1988, the Agatha in 1990, and the lifetime achievement award from the Society of Midland Authors in 1995. Whitney was working on her autobiography at the time of her passing at the age of 104.

About this edition

• Publisher: Open Road Media Romance
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1504046005
• ISBN 13: 9781504046008
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 294