The Ebony Swan

Family secrets are locked away at the intimidating Virginia estate of a prima ballerina in this suspenseful tale from a New York Timesbestselling author. Susan Prentice is a young nurse at a crossroads. Shes broken off an engagement, the father who raised her has just died, and now shes leaving the western shores behind for a trip to her familys home on Virginias Northern Neckwhere she saw her mother fall to her death twenty-five years ago. There, Susans grandmother, former ballet diva Alexandrina Alex Vargas Montoro, proves a formidable sentinel for the familys mysterious history. At first welcomed by her long-estranged relatives, spied on by suspicious neighbors, and drawn to Peter, Alexs handsome young doctor, Susan has nothing but questions. And for every answer, theres a warningand the fear that she has only Peter to trust in. But even the doctors past is shaded with murder. Soon Susan will discover that she alone holds the key to her mothers suspicious death, hidden away in her shattered memories. And someone intimately close to her is prepared to bury the truth forever. The Ebony Swan is a carefully crafted novel of psychological suspense by . . . [a] Mystery Writers of America Grand Master (Publishers Weekly).