In her thirty-fifth novel of psychological suspense, Phyllis A. Whitney
spins a spellbinding tale of a young woman's quest to uncover her true
identity. Successful young mystery novelist Molly Hunt, raised by
adoptive parents on Long Island, is stunned when a chance encounter
leads to a startling revelation. She is apparently the daughter of the
aristocratic Mountfort family of Charleston, South Carolina, kidnapped
as an infant from their ancestral home - and has an identical twin
sister. Travelling to Charleston, Molly meets her delicately lovely
long-lost twin; her mother's stern cousin, now the family patriarch,
doubtful of Molly's identity and suspicious of her motives; and his
tiny, enigmatic wife, a psychic who channels the spirit of a man who
died mysteriously on the Mountfort estate a generation before. As Molly
searches for the truth of her own origins, she comes to realize that the
secrets of her troubled family's past have a strange and powerful hold
on the present. Her reappearance in the lives of the Mountfort clan sets
in motion events that threaten the family's very existence - as well as
her own.
