Barbara Michaels Books in Order

When penniless Damaris Gordon accepts a post at Blacktower, a brooding Scottish estate, she becomes governess to a child and servant to a master rumored to be a murderer. Is Gavin Hamilton monster or victim, and can she survive finding out?

Orphaned cousins Ada and Harriet are sent to live with their mysterious guardian, Mr. Wolfson, in a remote manor on the moors. His two very different sons and a pair of menacing dogs hint that the household's secrets may be deadly.

A lighthearted séance in Ruth Bennett's Georgetown townhouse unleashes a violent haunting that seems to fixate on her niece Sara. As possessions and attacks escalate, Ruth and her friends must uncover the house's Revolutionary War past before history repeats itself.

In quiet, wealthy Middleburg, Maryland, charming outsider Peter Stewart arrives with an agenda he will not share. His fascination with the alluring ward of local author Kate More rattles a town built on old witchcraft rumors, whispered sacrifices, and carefully buried guilt.

Linda Randolph hears voices in the empty rooms of her luxurious home, urging her to flee her charismatic husband, Gordon. Is she losing her mind, or is the sophisticated statesman tied to something genuinely demonic that will not let her go?

Joanne McMullen travels to a fog shrouded Maine island to help her sister recover from the death of a baby. Mary insists she hears a child sobbing in the night, and when Joanne begins to hear it too, grief turns into terror.

Victorian heiress Lucy Cartwright defies warnings and marries Baron Clare, following him to his isolated estate, Greygallows. Rumors of his first wife's death, a locked wing, and a ghostly presence force Lucy to question whom she can trust, including her new husband.

Ellen March thinks a secluded house in the Virginia woods will give her a fresh start after divorce. Instead she finds hostile neighbors, a too helpful man next door, and unnerving visions that may be linked to an old legend about a local witch.

Meg Rittenhouse, still recovering from a car accident, accepts an invitation to convalesce in a rambling Pennsylvania mansion. Night after night she sees shadowy figures replaying scenes from another time, and the only other witness is the caretaker who may share their fate.

Drawn to the volcanic Greek island of Thera, Sandy Frederick joins her estranged archaeologist father on a dive that might uncover traces of Atlantis. Old rivalries, modern greed, and strange dreams about an ancient namesake suggest that the past has very personal plans for her.

Jan Wilde's summer in restored Williamsburg is interrupted by vivid dreams that carry her back to the American Revolution. There she watches her ancestors choose sides over slavery and loyalty, until the unfinished story in the past begins to affect lives in the present.

After her father's death, Francesca Fairbourn travels to her mother's Italian family and lands in a castle braced for revolution. Caught between two very different cousins and the masked rebel known as Il Falcone, she must decide where her loyalties and her heart lie.

American teacher Carla Tregellas inherits a cliff top mansion in Cornwall and a family legend that every two hundred years a daughter of the house is claimed by a demon lover from the sea. As midsummer approaches, accidents and threats make the curse feel real.

Recent widow Pat Robbins is fascinated by the empty twin of her own house next door. When a father and daughter finally move in, something unseen begins moving between the two homes, feeding on fear and grief while the families race to uncover its origin.

Marianne Ransom survives Victorian London by her wits and an odd gift for second sight. Taken in by a wealthy duchess who believes Marianne is the child of a famous medium, she is pushed into séances and schemes that could cost her both freedom and life.

Anne and Kevin escape to Grayhaven Manor in the Pennsylvania hills, planning a quiet summer writing a book together. The transplanted English mansion has other ideas, seducing and dividing them with echoes of long ago passions that still linger in its rooms.

Seeking work, Megan O'Neill arrives at Grayhaven Manor to be governess to a small girl and companion to the child's strong willed aunt. A strange black rainbow arches over the estate, and Megan slowly realizes that love, loyalty, and sanity are all in danger there.

Hoping hard work will pull her younger brother out of trauma after a car accident, Andrea Torgesen buys a decaying country mansion to renovate as an inn. But Jim is drawn to a neglected graveyard, voices whisper in the halls, and something resents their plans.

Newly widowed Kathy Malone travels to her late husband's childhood home in Tuscany, hoping the beauty of the countryside will dull her grief. Instead she meets a fearful child, a secretive aristocratic family, and hints that her husband's death may not have been an accident.

Medical student Julie Newcomb dreads returning to Maidenwood, her family's crumbling Virginia plantation, to care for her domineering grandmother. When an archaeologist uncovers the skeletons of a woman and child on the property, buried grudges and very current threats rise to the surface.

After a bad marriage, Karen Nevitt rebuilds her life by opening a vintage clothing boutique in Georgetown. Donations of exquisite gowns from local society ladies bring glamour, but a disturbing pattern of threats and an old mystery sewn into the seams put her in real danger.

On the eve of her wedding, Haskell Maloney learns she carries a genetic disease that does not match the heritage of either parent. Determined to learn the truth, she takes a museum job in Chicago that pulls her into academic rivalries, buried scandals, and attempted murder.

Young campaign worker Erin Hartsock joins the staff of charismatic Senate candidate Rosemary White Marshall and is swept into the intensity of national politics. A string of suspicious fires and whispered secrets from Rosemary's past leave Erin wondering if someone will kill to control the story.

Returning to her New England hometown after her grandfather's death, Meg Venturi inherits half of his prestigious jewelry firm, sharing control with enigmatic A. L. Riley. Sabotage, town gossip, and an old tragedy surrounding her father's death suggest the business is built on more than gems.

Lawyer Diana Reed poses as a landscape designer to take a job at an old Virginia estate where her brother vanished months earlier. Surrounded by heirloom roses and genteel employers, she starts seeing visions that may be messages from the missing man or from far older ghosts.

English professor Karen Holloway discovers an anonymous eighteenth century gothic manuscript by a writer who signed herself Ismene. Tracing it to a decaying Virginia estate, she finds rival scholars, small town politics, and a bunker in the woods that seems to scream when anyone comes near.

Graduate student Rachel Grant loves working at a Leesburg vintage clothing shop, where she studies the folklore of bridal garments. A mysterious antique wedding quilt arrives with no history, and as Rachel handles it, her emotions and behavior twist in ways that threaten everyone around her.

American garden enthusiast Heather Tradescant visits rural England hoping to see famous historic landscapes and instead finds a village obsessed with witchcraft legends. Hired to help restore the grounds of Troytan House, she is drawn into a maze of secrets, modern paganism, and very real peril.

In a private club on a foggy night, figures like Harry Houdini, Arthur Conan Doyle, and other experts on the uncanny debate two notorious hauntings. As they dissect the Bell Witch and a Connecticut poltergeist case, the line between human trickery and true supernatural terror blurs.