Barbara Vine

When their grandmother dies, Grace and Andrew Easton inherit her sprawling, book-filled London home, Dinmont House. Rather than sell it, the siblings move in together--an unusual arrangement, but ideal for the affectionate pair--until the day Andrew brings home a new boyfriend: novelist James Derain. James's strident comments about Grace's doctoral thesis soon puncture the house's idyllic atmosphere, as does his and Grace's brief fling. When James...

Best-selling novelist Gerald Candless's sudden death from a heart attack leaves behind a wife and two doting daughters. To sort through her grief, one of his daughters, Sarah, decides to write a biography of her internationally celebrated father. Within hours of beginning her research, Sarah comes across the first of what will be many shocking revelations. As her life is slowly torn apart, a terrible logic finally emerges to explain her mother's remoteness,...

Joe dedicates his life to serving another man's obsession, kidnapping. Paul is dedicated to serving his employer, a wealthy woman. Joe and Paul's dedication brings them to opposite sides in a novel of obsession and betrayal.