Phyllis A. Whitney

Christy Moreland, returned to the Moreland's palatial Newport estate to discover the reason for her father's death, confronts her domineering mother-in-law in a struggle for her son's freedom and her own life

The lush, secluded mountains of North Carolina's Lake Lure had drawn Lauren Castle into their spell. It was here, in 1938, that Hollywood's glamour girl, Victoria Frazer, drowned during a scandalous affair with actor Roger Brandt. Few knew about the baby spirited into the night. That baby was Lauren's mother. Just two …

David Hallam dies investigating suspicious fires in Tennessee's Smoky Mountains and his wife, Karen, seeking the causes and agents of his death, follows him into mystery and danger