When young advertisting executive Meg Vantruy inherits her millionaire grandfather's antique jewelry business, she comes face to face with his mysterious partner, A. L. Riley, dark secrets from the past, and life-threatening danger.
When an antique quilt mysteriously appears at the shop where Rachel works, it has an ominous effect on her. The evil that appears to emanate from the quilt threatens to destroy Rachel and the people she cares about.
Anne has been invited to spend the summer writing an English textbook at the house of a friend. There she finds herself in a contest for her friend's life with an unearthly force in the form of a beautiful woman who has been dead 300 years.
Andrea is forced by circumstances to live in the decaying Victorian mansion she has inherited from a distant relative. There she and her brother slowly discover the mysterious secret of the house.
While spending the summer vacation with her crotchety grandmother Martha Carr, Julie uses her experience as a medical student to investigate the discovery of the remains of a young woman and her child.
While staying with her dead mother's family in Italy when that country is in the midst of Garibaldi's Red Shirt uprising, Francesca is plunged into a situation of political and emotional turmoil.
