Books like The highest dream by Phyllis A. Whitney

A collection of twelve short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, first published in The Strand Magazine (1891‑92) and compiled in 1892.

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

After the collapse of her former faction, Tris Prior crosses the walls to discover a world beyond, facing new truths that force her to confront her identity and the limits of loyalty.

Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens’s 1837-39 social novel, follows an orphan raised in a workhouse who flees to London, joins a gang of pickpockets, and uncovers family secrets while exposing child labour and exploitation.

A novel about Emma Woodhouse, a young woman's struggles with matchmaking, misplaced pride, and the dangers of meddling in others' lives in 18th-century England.

Whitney Stone returns to England after Paris triumphs, poised to win her childhood love. To protect his fortunes, her father marries the proud Duke of Claymore, turning Whitney into a prized bargaining chip among high society.

Craig of the Mohicans, a frontier scout turns away from civilization, forming a bond with a Mohican warrior as they escort two sisters across the perilous wilderness of America's frontier.

A sweeping adventure through Rome, mythic caves, and celestial realms where humans, chimeras, and seraphim clash, love, and die, exploring the blurred lines between good and evil.

An orphaned man falls in love with his cousin's widow after she moves into the manor house.

A young boy becomes a slave on a transatlantic slave ship, forced to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo.

A dog named Ginger changes the Pye children's lives.

A story of a woman's search for a meaningful life, exploring personal conflicts and social critique in 1872.

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.

A daughter of a celebrated novelist and a former Hollywood actress navigates grief, family secrets, and a chilling mystery in Bergen, Norway, as she seeks answers about her parents and the unsolved murder tied to a forgotten film.

Rose Campbell returns to her roots in this sequel to 'Eight Cousins'.

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.

Two teenagers recount their pregnancy to an unborn child in a moving story about family and love, told from two perspectives.

When the popular blond leader Melissa starts a mean game, isolated Trina and her friend Sandy must decide whether to join the crowd or stand up for what matters.

Eighteen‑year‑old Christie spends a vacation in a small Midwestern town and becomes entangled in the clash between local citizens and Mexican American migrant laborers working for her father’s company.

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.

A young woman in London faces unsettling doubts when her husband hires a strange couple to care for her children during a work assignment.

Ned Wallis, a curious boy, sneaks a gun into his attic and takes a shot at a shadow. When he returns, he discovers a wild cat with one eye missing.

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.