Dawn
Dawn Longchamp wants more than anything to believe that, at last, she's safe and secure. Her daddy Ormand has a good job as janitor at a fancy private school in Virginia, so Dawn and her older brother Jimmy have a chance for a free, fine educationand a decent life. Her weak, sickly mother can grow strong again... and Dawn's secret, precious hope to study singing is finally happening. And now Philip Cutler, the handsomest boy in school, is paying Dawn lots of attention. But suddenly Dawn's whole world begins to crumble. Her mother has died and the police have taken Daddy away. Dawn is thrust into a new family and an evil web of unspoken sins... Humiliated and scorned by the ironbacked matriarch of this wealthy clan, Dawn's frail hopes are in tatters. Now, somehow, Dawn must strip away three generations of lies and deceptions that will change all their lives forever!
Secrets of the Morning
Dawn can hardly believe she's a student at one of New York City's best music schools. Now, her most precious wish, to become a singer, can come true. But Dawn still dreams about Jimmy, her strong, intense boyfriend, and the love and anguished secrets they share... Then, once again, Dawn becomes a victim of her grandmother's twisted schemes. Desolate, she clings to the tender hope that Jimmy will return one day.....
Twilight's Child
At last, Dawn can create a haven of warmth and love for her beautiful baby girl, Christie, and her darling Jimmy. Dawn is a huge success as the new owner of the Cutler's Cove hotel... and soon she and Jimmy will be blessed with a child of their own. Yet Dawn cannot quell her forebodings of evil. She can sense Grandmother Cutler's presence everywhere... can feel her bitter hatred as if the bitter lady plotted her vengance from the grave. Her spiteful, jealous sister, Clara, is easier to ignore.. until the day Clara's childish rage explodes into violence, destroying Dawn's most precious dream....
Midnight Whispers
Yet Christie can't help the feeling as if a dark cloud hovers over Cutler's Cove... a cloud whose origins lie in her family's troubled history, and the many questions no one, not even Dawn will answer. Only one person can chase away her blues: Gavin, Daddy Jimmy's young and handsome stepbrother. Then, in one harsh night, Christie's world is changed forever. Now as black storms of evil gather around her, Christie must struggle to break the cruel bonds of the past... to destroy the curse that has haunted Cutler's Cove for generations....
Darkest Hour
Lillian's world is full of grand parties, of sunshine and promises, as thrilling as the fairy tales Mama spins for her and her little sister Eugenia. No one, not even her cold, stern Papa, and her Bible-spouting sister Emily, until Emily reveals the shattering secret of Lillian's birth, a secret Mama sadly cannot deny. Still Lillian refuses to believe Emily's hateful claim that she is evil, a curse... even when sweet, gentle Eugenia loses her fragile hold on life, and Mama retreats further into her fantasies. But when tragedy befalls her best friend, the one boy whose tender heart mirrors her own, Lillian comes to believe Emily's grim words. Meekly, she endures her penance, finding a strange solace in the endless repetition of prayers in a room stripped of all comforts. Then Papa loses The Meadows in a card game, and Lillian is faced with a new and terrifying prospect. Now, Lillian must leave her girlhood home behind, and make a bold new beginning as the mistress of a hotel called Cutler's Cove....
