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).
