When Mr. Carlson buys an old Victorian mansion, he has no idea it's a haunted house and he's inheriting its ghosts. His daughter Sandy, however, quickly discovers something's amiss. At first the incidents can be explained away by the drafts and noises of an old house. But a chilly draft doesn't normally push you backwards over a porch railing. The story unfolds in two time periods. Chapters alternate between the Carlsons and the former owners whose struggles continue past their deaths. One chapter takes you back to the 1920s and into the lives of Nora and her younger sister Alessandra. In the...

He spots Stacey on her first day at Hollis High. Busy trying to adjust to her new high school, she is completely unaware that one of her schoolmates has started stalking her. But odd things keep happening. Some are pleasant, like the arrival of the sweater she put on lay-away, but hadn't paid for yet. Some are not, like the assault on her sister's friend, who happens to look a lot like her sister. Witness the events through Stacey's eyes and through the mind of the stalker as his attraction turns into an obsession. What drives him to pursue her? As she makes new friends and begins to date,...

Watching a saloon fight, hearing a ghost in the hallway, dating a gambler...Kathleen could never have imagined such experiences during her homeless days living on the streets of New York. An orphan train brings her West where a chance encounter at a train stop lands her a job in the silver-mining town of Calico, California. Her job entails cleaning in a "boarding house" where the girls befriend her, and the madam protects her. Afternoons and evenings she is free to roam around town where she meets colorful characters typical of the Old West-some pleasant, some not-witnesses mine workers...

Maddie wakes up in a nightmare worse than any she ever dreamt in her sleep. She finds herself in a sanitarium, not knowing how she got there or why she's there. Tortuous weeks pass by as she tries to climb out of the black hole in her memory and piece her life back together. But most of all, most important of all, she wants to find Luke despite the lies she's been told about him.

Deciding she needs a break from the problems that plague her at home, Maddie heads to a mountain lake for a week's vacation and finds more than she ever hoped for with a November romance. All is not idyllic, however, when she decides to stay at the lake. Flashbacks to her home in the desert disorient her. Photos disappear from her phone. Nightmares and headaches disrupt her nights and days. A jealous rival targets her. Maddie clings to Luke for answers, but only she can untangle the source of these troubling incidents.