Mistress Of Shadows

Description for MISTRESS OF SHADOWS by Barbara Michaels:

AMMIE, COME HOME

From the Shadows of the Past...
The seance began as a party game. A playful diversion for the guests in Ruth Bennett's fashionable Georgetown home. But when her niece Sara speaks in a voice not her own, the game becomes frighteningly real ... and the dark, forgotten secrets of yesterday's passions rise up to claim new players...

PRINCE OF DARKNESS

Peter Stewart's appearance in the small but wealthy Maryland town of Middleburg caused something of a stir among the fashionable citizens. They did not care for outsiders.

There was something very eerie about the whole town. For a while Peter thought he was imagining things. Then he found a weird-looking crucifix in his bureau. And later a voodoo doll. A doll with his face!

Somebody was definitely trying to scare him off. But it wasn't until he showed an interest in Katherine More, the famous folklore scholar, that the real trouble began.

Why did they want him out of the way? Was it because of his uncanny resemblance to Katherine's dead lover? The lover whose mysterious suicide had driven her into seclusion.

Or was there some other unspeakable truth they were afraid he'd discover?
Peter did not frighten easily. He began to hunt down the secret they were trying so desperately to hide.

Suddenly the unearthly evil that lurked in the shadows of Katherine's past coiled itself to strike again.

Peter did not even feel the blow that pushed him over the edge into Hell ...

THE DARK ON THE OTHER SIDE

The house whispered to her, and she thought she must be going mad. Was there no one to help her?

Weird, terrifying things were happening. Or was it all in Linda Randolph's mind? Her husband, Gordon, was convinced that it was. Michael Collins, the young man assigned to write a magazine story on Randolph, believed him. But as Michael probed into the great man's brilliant past, he stumbled into a dark tangle of violence and terror. One of the Randolph's was possessed--possessed by a demonic force from beyond.

But which one?

Michael had to find out quickly. Because the other one was marked for death!

Michael was irresistibly drawn to Linda Randolph, but he knew that he was wrong. Gordon, Linda's husband, obviously adored her. He gave her everything that wealth, position, and fame could offer.

Why then did she seem so unhappy -- and so frightened?

Was she, as some suggested, really insane? Or was it something deeper and more horrifying?