Dorothy Daniels Books in Order

Nurse Diana Carvell's carefully planned future with a doctor is unsettled by her attraction to the secretive Ethan Sloane. On a small island threatened by a hurricane, she must reconsider the life and relationship she expected to choose.

Nurse Carol Allison keeps a troubling secret while working at the World’s Fair. When a ballerina with a dangerous heart condition threatens to expose it, Carol must choose between protecting her career and safeguarding her patient.

Sudden mysterious deaths leave Nancy Furnivall orphaned and isolated. Recognizing that a hidden killer remains at work, she must discover who is responsible before another attack turns the losses that have shattered her family into a direct threat against her own life.

Ballet dancer Catherine climbs the long stone staircase to prima ballerina Olga Ianovna’s mansion hoping to advance her career. Another young woman has already died there, and the household’s concealed past threatens Catherine’s ambitions and her life.

A marble tomb dominates the grounds of Darkhaven, where a dead man still seems to influence everyone around him. Beth investigates the rituals and secrets surrounding his memory while fearing that an unseen enemy is preparing a similar resting place for her.

Lily Bennett arrives at Marriott Hall for her friend Adele’s wedding and discovers that the bride has vanished. Surrounded by hostile people with reasons to oppose the marriage, Lily searches for answers before she becomes the next victim.

Eve and her father inherit a castle whose previous owners died under mysterious circumstances. Strange lights, a locked tower and the secrets of two suitors make settling into their new home increasingly frightening as unexplained events suggest the earlier deaths may be repeated.

Her foster mother’s deathbed confession sends Jane Randell to Shadow Glen, a castle on the Hudson River inhabited by strangers. Whispers and deceit suggest that the household’s secrets are more dangerous than Jane expected, placing her life at risk.

Returning to her ancestral home, Laura Montville encounters a hostile father and unsettling questions about her mother’s death at the estate’s lily pond. As threats become attacks, she struggles to identify whom she can trust.

Amy Dalton arrives at Falcon Hill to rejoin her family, only to discover her sister missing and her mother refusing to recognize her. Disturbing sounds and concealed hostilities threaten her new romance as she investigates the plantation’s secret.

Corinna comes to Bluegrass Hill to nurse her invalid uncle and help salvage a declining horse farm. A mysterious stallion, unfamiliar residents, and two competing suitors complicate the task while unseen dangers threaten her place in the household.

Karen Carlisle becomes a luxury liner’s nurse to escape a scandal in her past. When an infant develops a disease only she understands, helping the child could mean revealing the truth and jeopardizing her new life.

Jennifer expects to marry into a warm and respectable family, but whispers and an ominous message transform their isolated mansion into a place of fear. Uncertain whom to trust, she questions whether the home promising happiness is concealing a threat to her life.

A newlywed expects a Hawaiian honeymoon but instead finds herself traveling to a Polish castle under unexplained surveillance. Her husband’s talent for deception becomes frightening as military escorts and secretive circumstances raise the possibility that she has married into an espionage operation.

Sally Dixon travels to Norway to visit her father’s grave and deliver papers to a scientist. Theft and murder turn the pilgrimage into an encounter with international intrigue, forcing her to confront the significance of the documents she carries.

Acquitted of murder but still distrusted by villagers, Melinda Marston welcomes an invitation to Mystic Manor. A succession of suspicious accidents threatens her reputation again, drawing her toward an abandoned chapel where the household’s menace appears to originate.

A private nurse suspects someone is poisoning her wealthy patient, only to realize she has become the most plausible suspect. Claims about a lost daughter provide a motive, while attacks and strange apparitions leave her dependent on a doctor unable to help.

The San Francisco earthquake shatters lives and exposes a new danger inside Jessica Taylor’s ancestral home. Amid the destruction surrounding her, forces within the family mansion turn survival after a public catastrophe into a more private struggle against an emerging threat.

Amy Keller begins to fear that her husband’s mysterious past conceals murder. Payments to a dead man’s widow and an engraved leaf in the family mausoleum draw her into questions that may endanger her own life.

Grace sees a silent little girl whom everyone else insists does not exist, using her recent psychiatric treatment to dismiss her fears. Determined the child is real and endangered, she investigates despite disbelief, drawing herself and an admirer into unexpected peril.

Verna Ward fears an apparently supernatural force has taken hold of her friend Lucia. Her search for an explanation leads toward nocturnal rituals and the Aztec temple overlooking the ranch, placing her own life at risk.

A new bride suffers apparent accidents at a Louisiana mansion where earlier brides met terrible ends after Mardi Gras balls. As the next celebration approaches, she must decide whether the threat comes from a relative, a jealous neighbor or her own husband.

Angela Wingate takes a companion’s job helping Eve van Loon recover from a devastating loss of memory. Someone in the household wants those memories suppressed, and Angela’s efforts to help expose both women to danger.

A young woman travels to Universal City Studios for a screen test, taking an opportunity to pursue a life in film. The prospect brings her into a new setting in this romance about an aspiring actress.

A stranger’s will gives Lydia a Southern mansion and plantation on condition that she live among resentful occupants. Investigating why she inherited a house traditionally reserved for one family becomes urgent when friendly gestures conceal people who would benefit from her death.

Joyce follows a racing driver she still loves to Europe despite his refusal to marry her. A stolen passport and his secretive associates expose an espionage plot behind the races, making her attempt at reconciliation a dangerous involvement with unseen enemies.

Margo Addison searches Marrakesh after her father mysteriously disappears, unaware that she has entered an international espionage plot. A woman resembling her dead mother and an American importer’s offer of help make knowing whom to trust increasingly difficult.

Sent by her employer to bid on an old hotel, Peggy encounters apparent hauntings and survives two attacks. A neighboring man and a mysterious grave draw her toward a concealed plot whose perpetrators are determined to keep the building’s secret from being uncovered.

Rebecca Wyndam marries Jack Stuart after a brief courtship in 1890 New York, then follows him to a Maine island. Finding him missing, she faces sinister intrigues and apparent supernatural threats without the protector she thought she knew.

Gabrielle finds herself trapped with a family convinced she resembles their mansion’s murderous ghost. They demand that she stop the haunting, leaving her to confront an apparent supernatural double while facing threats to her own life.

A stewardess anticipates exploring Hong Kong with the businessman she has long loved. Objects concealing secrets and encounters with dangerous strangers instead draw her into espionage, forcing her to question whether her companion is using her in a scheme involving murder.

After inheriting her mother’s mansion, Cassie Taylor discovers a family legacy of prophecy. Villagers fear she shares her mother’s powers, while increasingly disturbing events make her question whether seeing the future could protect her or endanger her.

A daughter receives a warning that the house where she once felt loved now holds mortal danger. Familiar surroundings become a source of uncertainty as she confronts the possibility that returning home has placed her life at risk.

American Donna Moreno arrives in Spain to claim an inheritance and dismisses a legend linking ghostly religious figures to deaths in the family. Disturbing events at the mansion gradually make the shadow of its chapel harder to ignore.

Sharon confronts an unseen presence that seems to call to her from beyond the grave. Extinguished lamps, sudden cold, and inexplicable violence turn the haunting into a threat she must face before it overwhelms her safety.

Janet remains in an inherited mansion convinced her uncle was killed while investigating her father’s death. Hostile relatives and the possibility of another attack do not deter her search, but approaching the truth exposes danger from someone she did not expect.

A doctor recruits a young woman to watch an elderly patient’s inheritance-hungry relatives for signs of wrongdoing. Her growing affection for him complicates the assignment, and discovering why she was really brought to the manor reveals a threat aimed directly at her.

After her childhood home is destroyed, Bella seeks refuge with influential relatives in wartime Washington. Gathering information for the Confederate cause draws her into the capital’s social world, while memories of a Union officer complicate the loyalties guiding her secret work.

Nicolette Atwell visits a Maine house that is occupied for only one week each year. Learning why it usually stands empty reveals a history of death, and the annual gathering soon places her in danger herself.

Three husbands have died under mysterious circumstances at Mallory Hall. Janet faces the possibility that her own marriage may follow the same pattern, as the history of the house casts a threatening shadow over her future.

Louise reopens the theater her family abandoned after her father was accused of murder and died by suicide. Living in the deserted building, she searches for evidence that will establish his innocence, unaware how dangerous uncovering the old crime may become.

Sybil receives a warning against returning to Rose House, where a young man supposedly died beneath a rockslide. The housekeeper claims his ghost has grown into adulthood and may blame Sybil for her mother’s past.

Hope Owen returns home after her mother’s death to find her relatives relying on séances and a long-dead matriarch’s wishes. When the attempts to contact spirits are followed by deaths, Hope fears she may become the next victim.

An heiress returns to the house where she witnessed her parents’ violent deaths, intending to sell it and escape the memory. Discovering a secret that could explain her father’s actions makes departure harder, while investigating it exposes her to a new risk.

Searching for her missing father in the Florida Keys, Avis comes to beautiful Diablo Manor and discovers a chamber of torture instruments. A dummy resembling her suggests someone wants the search abandoned, but she refuses to accept his presumed death.

Virginia Seaton returns to Falcon Island after a fire kills her parents and alarming reports cast doubt on her grandfather's sanity. Determined to take him away from the ruined family home, she encounters frightening stories and signs that the deaths may have been deliberately caused.

Joyce awakens from a disorienting darkness to find herself standing in a corridor with a bloodied stiletto in her hand. Unable to account for how she arrived there, she faces an unsettling mystery in which her own actions and the warnings of others seem dangerously disconnected.

Jennifer inherits her mother’s apparent gift for trance mediumship and is invited to a remote mansion to investigate a suspected murder. Someone fears what her séances might uncover, turning the offered refuge into a threat to her life.

Awakened by mysterious drumming, Andrea follows the sound from a silent house into a moonlit forest. In a clearing, she witnesses a strangely soundless dance that leaves her frightened and unable to pull herself away from the scene.

After her mother's suspicious death by fire, Carina's grandfather fills his house with escape doors but still dies trapped in a blaze. As the family's last surviving heir, Carina must determine whether the fiery danger pursuing the Barclays comes from human enemies or something beyond them.

Named heir to the estate of the man who once rejected her amid scandal, Tina Farrell returns with her daughter Avis. Renewed hatred and violence draw them into a decades-old mystery whose resolution may determine whether Avis survives.

At Witch's Castle, Gale hears a sinister voice invoking a demon and becomes entangled in an old witch's legend. As threatening events multiply, she must discover whether a human enemy or something supernatural is directing them.

Actress Elaine Foster's successful opening night is disturbed by the apparent ghost of the play's dead author. A stay at his isolated mansion brings increasingly violent manifestations, while a reporter seeks proof of fraud and Elaine struggles to understand who or what wants her dead.

Dancer Nicolette Artaude finds her own life beginning to mirror the frightening destiny of the character she performs onstage. The resemblance turns her work into a source of personal danger, blurring the separation between the role she inhabits and the fate awaiting her beyond the theater.

Janet Thayer enters Haiti illegally to search for her missing brother, following a clue to an isolated mansion. Its owner warns her of voodoo and insists her brother has become a zombie, but Janet stays to uncover the truth despite growing danger.

A chalet's tower room contains a miniature house filled with dolls representing the family who live there. When damaged dolls seem to foretell their human counterparts' deaths, the sinister collection becomes the center of a terrifying mystery.

During an annual circus party, a plate offered by a clown ends up killing a woman's dog. Searching the woods for the animal, she realizes the poison may have been intended for her and fears a murderer is following her.

Polly Lanier's testimony helped convict Stacy Bryant of her foster sister's murder. When he is freed, mysterious lights appear in a supposedly locked house, and Polly must reconcile her growing love for him with fears for her safety.

After a car accident, a young woman awakens with no memory and only three keys in her handbag. Identified as Sandra Larrabee, she searches for her missing past while someone turns the mystery of her identity into a deadly trap.

Gay Quillan travels into the Guatemalan jungle to search for her missing father. Warnings about ancient gods fail to deter her, but an old temple and its rituals draw her into dangers she cannot easily explain or escape.

Karen is stunned to see photographs apparently showing her mother, who died eighteen months earlier. The images lead her to an artist in Maine, where she must investigate whether her mother's seeming reappearance conceals something more disturbing.

Janet Bowen's testimony sent her father's murderer to prison, where he vowed revenge. Now terrifying incidents disturb life at Riverview, leaving Janet to discover how a condemned man could be carrying out threats from behind bars.

Psychiatric nurse Janelle Farrington is hired to help Nadine Caldwell, who has remained silent since her mother's death four years earlier. Her father fears the girl wants to kill him, forcing Janelle to investigate a deeply troubled household.

College student Cassie Anders visits a friend's country house to investigate the haunting left by a murdered couple. Her psychic abilities draw her closer to the dead, but unseen forces seem determined to prevent her from leaving.

Mara Cameron reopens a girls' school to clear her headmaster father's name after accusations of Satanism and three student suicides. As the academy's dark past resurfaces, she must determine whether its lingering danger is human or supernatural.

Raised in an isolated house by hostile grandparents, Arielle Vance grows up surrounded by disturbing rumors about her mother. When she seeks refuge in the woods, a hidden retreat offers another mystery and the possibility of a killer.

Amber Spence returns to a Hudson River manor and the father she barely knows. As she investigates her parents' separation, threats against his life suggest that someone may be framing her or exploiting the memory of her mother.

After a failed romance, Aldis discovers her aunt Evangeline's diary and recognizes unsettling parallels with her own life. The entries lead toward a tragic ending, while disturbing discoveries in the house make Aldis fear that history is repeating itself.

Nurse Jenny Slade comes to a castle to care for an elderly man tormented by a mysterious presence. After his death, the threat turns toward her, leaving Jenny to confront an evil that may have outlived its victim.

Peggy Scott inherits an estate that awakens disturbing memories and visions of another life. As a dark romance and sinister influences from the past intrude upon the present, she struggles to understand what the house has unleashed.

Nineteen-year-old Carrie investigates a mansion whose history of love has given way to hatred and death. With the man she loves, she confronts strange voices and a sinister room while trying to identify the force threatening them.

Nicole Fanchon comes to Emerald Hill to care for a troubled child who claims her dead mother visits her. After a threatening encounter with scissors, Nicole must determine whether the danger comes from the girl, the household, or an apparent ghost.

Gail Canby enters the former home of a dead spiritualist, where greedy relatives compete for an inheritance. As a malevolent presence unsettles the household, she must unravel the dangerous legacy of a man whose influence seems to survive him.

Still shaken by her parents' mysterious deaths, Beverly Gillian marries a planter who promises the security she needs. Arriving at his plantation, Tidemill, she finds her hopes for a safe new life giving way to fear.

Judith Bennett goes to San Francisco to help her sister Eve, accused of murdering her husband. Behind the wealth and respectability of Nob Hill, Judith uncovers concealed relationships and dangerous secrets that may expose a killer.

Amy learns that her new husband's family is supposedly cursed: every male Blakely will die before his first child is born. When his brother is murdered, the couple must unravel an old woman's ominously accurate predictions to protect their future.

Psychologist Alison investigates a powerful businessman's possible suicide and his threat to return from the dead for revenge. A séance appears to unleash a haunting, but subsequent murders put Alison in danger as she searches for the truth.

A plantation fire is followed by its owner's violent death, leaving his nineteen-year-old twin daughters to inherit a dangerous future. Their struggle to find happiness becomes entangled with a woman's ruthless determination to seize the estate and destroy them.

In 1925, June Standish accepts a job chronicling the life of a deceased film star she closely resembles. As astrology, strange influences, and troubling events surround her, June begins to fear that another woman's identity is consuming her own.

Pianist Amy Cooper returns to Beckford for a concert whose dedication revives an old controversy. After an attack, fragments of a suppressed memory emerge, drawing her toward a crime that others are desperate to keep buried.

Nurse Jane Tracy sees a woman in the garden who resembles her elderly patient's long-dead love. With a doctor's help, she investigates the apparition while suspicious heirs await an inheritance and her patient faces a growing threat.

A dead captain's curse shadows Carolyn's search for the truth behind a campaign of revenge. Drawn to Jeff but surrounded by threats, she must uncover who is directing the danger before she can hope for a future with him.

Cora Taylor returns to her family's island to bury her aunt, only to face ghostly disturbances and brushes with death. A lawyer promises protection, but Cora increasingly fears she will share the fate that has claimed her relatives.

Cassie inherits an imposing mansion known as the House of Mirrors, expecting an opportunity for a new life. Instead, the property draws her into a dangerous mystery in which discovering her true identity may be essential to survival.

Across fifty years in France and frontier California, the Cyprien family's pursuit of a vineyard fortune shapes successive generations. Ambition, love, concealed shame, and rivalries among its daughters threaten the bonds on which their prosperity depends.

Laura Ashton inherits an inn after her father's apparent death in a shipwreck. When a detective claims he escaped to France with stolen valuables, she joins a lawyer's search for answers and uncovers secrets that put her in danger.

Celeste Abbott visits an ailing aunt at Linden Gardens, where three women, including her mother, have died. After narrowly surviving a rockslide, she must decide whom to trust while fear and buried guilt haunt the estate.

Eighteen-year-old Angela Gambrell receives a supposedly lucky ring from the parents she has not seen in ten years. Determined to find them in Italy, she follows a trail shadowed by criminal organizations and secrets her family has concealed.

Perrine flees a cruel betrothed after his crime brings violence upon her family. Seeking an independent future, she travels from Paris to New York and California, but the man she escaped continues to pursue her.

Lorene Foster and her tenant refuse to leave her ancestral mansion despite a threatening disembodied voice. As disturbances spread to the cemetery and fire threatens the house, their determination to explain the haunting draws them into a deadly trap.

Angel Hanway arrives in her ancestral village to find that local people believe her family is bound to Death. With a medical student's help, she challenges their warnings and investigates the sinister events surrounding her father's reputation.

During the Irish famine, Kate Moran appeals to Lord Cormac for help feeding the villagers. Her desperate request draws her into the world of a powerful aristocrat, where desire, dependence, and danger complicate her struggle to protect them.

Actress Meg Lambert's career unravels as a mysterious woman in black and a voice inside her mind seem to pursue her. A doctor urges her to leave New York, but even the countryside offers no escape from the frightening presence.

Adria Arnet returns to the deserted town and marble quarry her family owns, both shadowed by a curse tied to an innocent man's lynching. With quarry co-owner Owen Sloan, she investigates a violent history that still threatens the present.

After her new husband dies in a riding accident, Amy Paige takes his body home to his family's Virginia estate. Despite warnings against the journey, she enters a hostile household where an apparent enemy may become her only ally.

Ambitious ballerina Nicola Maneth pursues the highest rank in her profession with support from Emperor Franz Josef. Her success makes enemies in the theater and imperial court, while love for the man protecting her threatens her career.

In Vienna in 1912, Magda Karoly comes of age amid imperial splendor, corruption, and political danger. Her father’s title and mission and her mother’s courtesan experience shape her path toward a risky love and an uncertain future.