Velda Johnston Books in Order

Unable to remember her early childhood or her mother's death, Susan Sayre returns to the mansion where she grew up. Evasive relatives deepen the mystery, and a handsome stranger offers help on terms that place her under his control.

After inheriting a hotel in Jericho, Nevada, Lisa encounters unexplained hostility from the townspeople. A child's death and a dog's nighttime howling suggest a buried secret, leaving her uncertain whether the hotel's attentive manager can keep her safe.

Dinah Haversham arrives at an isolated castle expecting a position among wealthy hosts. Instead, a strange laboratory, forbidden passages and her employer's disturbing plans reveal that she may have been chosen for an experiment she cannot freely escape.

Unemployed actress Ellen Stacey accepts work caring for a girl at a wealthy family's seaside estate. Discovering that someone is secretly giving the child drugs draws her into danger, where affection and reassurance may conceal a killer.

Karen Wentworth's familiar circle meets at dusk in Central Park, but their welcome turns unexpectedly threatening. Shut out of a conspiracy surrounding a crime, she begins questioning the man she loves while struggling to understand the danger around her.

Jane Warren retreats to a seaside cottage to recover from a broken relationship, but local hostility unsettles her refuge. Strange events and a man she cannot trust draw her toward a dangerous secret hidden in the property's past.

Pregnant and unable to prove her marriage, Irene accepts a bargain with her missing husband's half-brother. Their unhappy union brings her into the Fonsell household, where another death connects a new threat with an older unsolved murder.

Seeking temporary shelter for herself and her daughter, a woman arrives at an isolated family property on Long Island. The neglected house appears to offer refuge, but an atmosphere of hidden malevolence shadows their arrival.

After her new husband disappears with their money, Paula follows clues to a small town in the Mojave Desert. Its unwelcoming residents make finding him increasingly perilous, turning her search for answers into an encounter with concealed danger.

Sara Randall travels from New England to Venice to stay with her great-aunt. The move offers an escape from her former life, bringing her into an unfamiliar household in a city far from home.

Jennifer visits her wealthy aunt on a small island off Florida, only to find herself implicated when her hostess is murdered. Searching for the killer brings unexpected assistance from the victim's young widower, whose position complicates her suspicions.

In Scotland after the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie, a young woman finds herself alone among hostile strangers. Against the unsettled aftermath of the 1746 uprising, she must navigate a world shaped by suspicion and danger.

During a Paris layover, a young flight attendant wakes uncertain whether an attempted kidnapping really happened. Unable to distinguish a frightening memory from a dream or hallucination, she faces a mystery that undermines her sense of safety.

Martha Hathaway chooses to stay in Paris during the upheaval of 1870, determined to solve a tragic crime. Remaining in a city torn by war brings her search into a setting of passion and deadly danger.

Lisa Marsden returns to the Scottish house where her father was murdered and her mother lost her sanity. With her mother now released, Lisa confronts childhood trauma, renewed danger and an attraction to a man she cannot trust.

Joan accompanies a president's widow to France, where a charming courier enters their lives. Neither woman knows he has orders to abduct the widow, turning their encounter into a dangerous test of appearances and trust.

Samantha Develin travels to Tuscany to find her missing artist sister and discovers a sinister Etruscan statue. As neighbors urge her to leave, suspicious events suggest someone is determined to prevent her from learning what happened.

Diana rents a beach house in the Hamptons and begins encountering the ghosts of a family said to have died in a boating accident. Their return draws her into the possibility that their deaths were murder.

In a Long Island whaling village during the early nineteenth century, Fiona MacWain becomes caught up in unsettling adventures. A succession of mysterious deaths transforms her surroundings into a place where the unexpected carries dangerous consequences.

Susan Hapgood's whirlwind marriage takes her to a wealthy husband's Maine estate, where memories of his first wife overshadow their future. An increasingly threatening presence feeds her jealousy and fear, leaving her doubting both her safety and sanity.

Katherine Derwith searches for the parents who abandoned her as an infant before agreeing to marry. A television reporter offers help, but his hidden motives draw her toward a dangerous secret reaching from Manhattan to the Italian Alps.

In the summer of 1910, Amanda Dorrance falls in love with Michael Doyle, the son of Irish immigrants. When her wealthy father is murdered, Michael becomes the chief suspect, placing their relationship under a cloud of suspicion.

Struggling actress Catherine Mayhew accepts a lucrative assignment impersonating an elderly woman's missing granddaughter. At the family's Maine home, hostility and attraction complicate the deception, while the motives behind her employment become increasingly dangerous to ignore.

Carla Baron receives a terrifying telephone call from a man claiming to be her dead husband. The impossible voice turns her past into an unsettling present mystery, forcing her to question what she believes about his death.

Determined to clear her father's name, Deborah tries to reopen a murder case that has remained unresolved for twenty years. Opposition from the acting police chief is only the beginning, as her questions awaken a hidden, violent enemy.

Warned to leave her hometown, Linda Nordeen stays to confront the past that has shaped her life. Memories of her mother's murder and the collapse of her marriage draw her deeper into the unsettling history of a New England village.

When her aspiring dancer sister disappears after an affair with a dangerous man, Jenny Carr follows a postcard to London. A journalist joins her search, uncovering connections that carry the pursuit across Europe toward a deadly confrontation.

On an island off North Carolina, Kate Killigrew helps a recently paroled man she believes is innocent. Their search for his wife's real killer draws them into the circumstances behind a crime for which he has already paid.

After her husband's mysterious death, Laura travels to London seeking refuge with his wealthy family for herself and her daughter. Unwelcome among them, she searches for the secret behind his exile and discovers a danger that now threatens her.

Widowed Maryann Fallon takes work at an English manor and meets an estate manager who uncannily resembles her dead husband. His troubling behavior sends her searching for a connection that could threaten her family and expose a concealed past.

Wrongfully imprisoned for her fiancé's murder, pianist Sara Hargreaves escapes to visit her dying mother. With police pursuing her, she returns to the surgeon's California sanatorium, risking a new relationship as she searches for the real killer.

Gail Loring rents a Hamptons house hoping to recover from a traumatic experience and enjoy a new romance. Disturbing visions connect its former residents to her own family, revealing that an old threat may still be alive.

Carol searches Hollywood for an explanation of her father's suicide. As her inquiries draw her into mystery and romance, the circumstances behind his death become the central question in a world that offers few straightforward answers.

American illustrator Judith Dunne returns to her murdered cousin's former home near Hampton Court. Threats written in verse suggest the killer has turned toward her, leaving Judith to question the men who surrounded her cousin's life.