Books like Silverhill by Phyllis A. Whitney

A lonely orphan girl on the Yorkshire moors befriends a disabled cousin and unlocks the secrets of a hidden garden.

A young bride, the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter, arrives at Manderley on the Cornish coast and finds her new home haunted by the memory and housekeeper’s obsession with her mysterious, stylish predecessor—Rebecca.

Inspector Adam Dalgliesh must uncover the killer of a clever, ambitious young woman whose life ended in murder.

Ross Trent seeks a responsible caregiver for his three children and unexpectedly finds Taryn Bartlett, a twenty‑year‑old who appears almost five years younger. As tensions rise with his glamorous girlfriend Coral, the future of the family’s arrangement hangs in a delicate balance.

In the idyllic English village of Edgecombe St. Mary, retired Major Ernest Pettigrew finds unexpected companionship—and love—with Mrs. Jasmina Ali, a Pakistani shopkeeper, as they navigate friendship, loss, and cultural boundaries.

A summer adventure on Aunt Jane’s ranch leads the Alder children to a hidden mystery involving a stranger once drawn to her.

Caroline Kirby, forced to leave Maui for San Francisco, confronts a long‑hidden family secret when a tumultuous past resurfaces, forcing her to return to her childhood island and reckon with lost love.

A twelve‑year‑old, Daniel, joins a group of gifted kids—flying, invisible, and electric—who secretly help their Pennsylvania town until thirteen, when their powers and memories vanish, leading them to uncover a meteor‑related mystery.

Christy Moreland returns to the Spindrift estate in Newport to uncover the truth behind her father’s death, confronting a domineering mother‑in‑law and unraveling a web of deception that threatens her son.

Marel Gordon, an aspiring children's book illustrator, lands a job at a literary agency and marries writer Chris Mallory. Together they juggle careers and home life, learning the delicate balance of love and ambition.

Lindsay Phillips is drawn back to Arizona to confront her past, her father’s murderer, a mystical cane, and a forbidden love tied to her half-sister’s husband, with the ghostly spirit Vermilion guiding and haunting her in Sedona’s red cliffs.

A fourteen-year-old girl discovers a ghostly girl from 1877 when her family moves into a haunted house.

Hallie Knight’s search for her missing friend Susan Trench leads her back to Topsail Island, where family secrets and a tense investigation unfold on the North Carolina coast.

Two brothers navigate a quiet London hospital when the older sibling falls into a coma after a mysterious accident, and the younger must uncover the truth that could bring his sister back to life.

202 pages ; 18 cm

After decades of wrongs, Asa Cross seeks a fresh start in Denver, navigating love, loyalty, and his criminal past while a new cop, Royal Hastings, grapples with her attraction to him and the consequences of their tangled history.

Thunder Heights To Camilla King, her trip up the Hudson to the huge Gothic mansion named Thunder Heights was in a way a return to the home that had never been hers. From there her grandfather, Orrin Judd, the financier, ran his vast empire. When Camilla had been a child her mother had returned there for a visit and mysteriously died. From that point on, for reasons she had never understood, Camilla's father had cut himself off completely from the Judd family. And later Camilla, now an orphan and quite alone, had been making her way as a governess in New York City. The summons from the old man had come as a complete surprise. Yet Camilla obeyed it willingly, half out of curiosity, half in the hope of discovering a home and family of her own. She found a sick old man anxious to make his peace with her before he died. She found two extraordinary aunts--imperious Aunt Hortense, dressed in bygone fashions, and fey, ghostlike Aunt Letty, haunted by some strange guilt or sorrow. She found also Hortense's adopted son, Booth, a strange, sardonic young man who seemed content to idle away his considerable talents as a painter, and Ross Granger, who had been brought there as an aide to her grandfather and who treated her with the most rigid formality. Over the enormous house hung an atmosphere of gloom, impending danger, and strange crosscurrents. And out of these elements Phyllis Whitney has fashioned an extraordinarily holding story. Old Orrin Judd's amazing will, young Booth's unfinished portrait of Camilla's mother, the house itself, which took on a character of its own, and one near-accident after another, seemingly aimed at driving Camilla away, all play their parts. The Window on the Square THE SCENE IS NEW YORK CITY IN THE 1870's. A letter summons young Megan Kincaid to the house on Washington Square. In a startling interview the master of the house, Brandon Reid, informs her that he wishes her to devote herself to moody, unbalanced Jeremy, Mrs. Reid's son by her previous husband, Brandon's younger brother Dwight. Dwight Reid's brilliant career as New York District Attorney had been ended by a shocking and tragic accident with a gun--or so the newspapers had claimed--at the hands of this same guilt-ridden child, then aged seven. Against her better judgment, Megan accepts the challenge. From the beginning Megan feels uneasy in the house; she senses the presence of lurking evil, of mysterious emotional undercurrents, of relationships that are not what they appear to be. She does not know whom to trust--the haughty yet strangely sad beauty, Leslie Reid, or the somber, fascinating master of the house, whose warm voice belies his cold, grave manner. She finds herself irresistibly drawn toward him, and their growing mutual attraction is duly noted by interested members of the household. When Megan realizes fully the extent of her own feelings, she knows she cannot honorably remain in the Reid home. Yet she also knows that if she goes, Jeremy will be left alone in world, irretrievably lost.