Books like Thunder Heights by Phyllis A. Whitney

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.

Petals on the Wind, released in 1980, continues the Dollanganger family saga after their escape from the attic in 1960, chronicling their trials and secrets through 1975.

Gilly Ramsey inherits an enigmatic English country home, where ancient magic and a quiet village await her. Amid solitude and supernatural mysteries, she learns love, healing, and the power of her own legacy.

A woman's rise from poverty to political influence, inspired by stories told by a storyteller's daughter.

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

When famed contract killer Ricky Lozada goes on trial, Dr. Rennie Newton sits on the jury and finds herself both acquitted and pursued by a deadly obsessive killer.

Ellen Kellaway, a poor orphan raised by wealthy cousins, finds her quiet life shattered when a London nobleman proposes marriage, ushering her to the Far Island where a looming doom and mysterious family secrets await at Kellaway Castle.

After a mysterious accident, a woman awakens in a hospital with amnesia, determined to unravel the truth behind a violent night and the four men who stalk her.

A romance and thriller that intertwines art, antiques, and mystery as Cady Briggs, a successful art consultant, finds herself in charge of Chatelaine’s, her family’s prestigious art and antiques gallery, and unexpectedly falls into a dangerous investigation for missing valuables.

Set in a crumbling Georgian manor in rural Warwickshire, *The Little Stranger* follows a doctor arriving at a long‑standing family home where a death‑bed patient and chilling supernatural forces intertwine against the backdrop of post‑war Britain.

Kate MacKenna, a successful businesswoman near Charleston, faces an explosion, a looming loan, a threatening ex‑boyfriend, and a family crisis that pulls her into a perilous conspiracy to keep her fragrance company afloat.

In glimmering Palm Springs and buzzing Las Vegas, Serena Charters and the elusive manuscript appraiser Erik North race against a silent killer amid a centuries‑old illuminated manuscript.

A Modern-Day Gunfighter and a Woman's Touch in the Colorado Wilds

Lisa Somers pursues a new life as a UN tour guide, seeking to carve her own identity apart from her father's prominence as a radio commentator.

April Taylor, a teenage orphan who lost her parents, navigates heartbreak and betrayal, finding refuge with a deaf young woman named Echo. Together they confront danger and must rely on their friendship and inner strength to survive.

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.

Jessica Abbott arrives at Hampden House in the Virgin Islands, where she must confront the ruthless Catherine Drew and protect a child’s future while navigating a tangled love for Kingdon Drew.

A mystery story set in New York around Christmas, featuring a private investigator and a woman detective who are tasked with tracking down the thief of a valuable item that turns out to be much more important than initially thought.

In sultry New Orleans, Skye Cameron is torn between a brutal, wrongful‑conviction murderer, Justin Law, and the respectable brother Courtney, whose marriage she feels forced into by family pressure.

Score, Pixel, and Helaine return to the fantasy realm of Dondar to aid their unicorn companions in locating their former leader and thwarting a menacing wizard.

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.

Riley Crane, a former army officer and federal occult specialist, wakes in a blood‑stained room with no memory of the past weeks, a new man nearby, and her clairvoyant gift gone. Alone on Opal Island, she must outwit a murder that blends reality and the supernatural, while powerful figures doubt her involvement.

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.