**Family secrets are locked away at the intimidating Virginia estate of
a prima ballerina in this suspenseful tale from a New York
Times-bestselling author.
Susan Prentice is a young nurse at a crossroads. She's broken off an
engagement, the father who raised her has just died, and now she's
leaving the western shores behind for a trip to her family's home on
Virginia's Northern Neck--where she saw her mother fall to her death
twenty-five years ago. There, Susan's grandmother, former ballet diva
Alexandrina "Alex" Vargas Montoro, proves a formidable sentinel for the
family's mysterious history.
At first welcomed by her long-estranged relatives, spied on by
suspicious neighbors, and drawn to Peter, Alex's handsome young doctor,
Susan has nothing but questions. And for every answer, there's a
warning--and the fear that she has only Peter to trust in. But even the
doctor's past is shaded with murder. Soon Susan will discover that she
alone holds the key to her mother's suspicious death, hidden away in her
shattered memories. And someone intimately close to her is prepared to
bury the truth forever.
The Ebony Swan is a "carefully crafted novel of psychological suspense
by . . . [a] Mystery Writers of America Grand Master" (Publishers
Weekly).
