Overview
New York Times best-selling author Barbara Michaels, whom Mary Higgins Clark calls a “consummate storyteller,” returns with her unique blend of mystery, romance, and the uncanny.
Who knows what long-forgotten family secrets lie hidden in the eighteenth-century mansion which is being restored by a pair of wealthy eccentrics? Not Diana Reed, who arrives at the house with a false name and a false identity and who lives in constant fear of betraying herself. For Diana, posing as a landscape architect trained in the esoteric specialty of "old roses,” is determined to uncover a darker and more personal secret—one that may have begun and may well end in murder.
But the dead past intrudes on the present as Diana is haunted by eerie visions, strange music coming from nowhere, and the scent of roses wafting through empty rooms, and she is forced to confront forces more deadly than any she could have imagined. Here is shivery entertainment from the hand of America’s beloved Mistress of Suspense.