Karen White

Revisit the beginning of New York Times bestselling author Karen White’s signature style in one of her earliest novels—a gothic tale of a woman’s desperate quest for the truth...
 
WHISPERS OF GOODBYE
Alone and with nothing left to fear, Catherine deClaire Reed answers her sister’s desperate plea and travels to the cold comfort of her home in Reconstruction Louisiana. But Elizabeth...

With her extended maternity leave at its end, Melanie Trenholm is less than thrilled to return to work, especially when she's awakened by a phone call with no voice on the other end--and the uneasy feeling that the ghostly apparitions that have stayed silent for more than a year are about to invade her life once more. But her return to the realty office goes better than she could have hoped, with a new client eager to sell the home she recently inherited...

Practical Melanie Middleton hates to admit she can see ghosts. But she's going to have to accept it. An old man she recently met has died, leaving her his historic Tradd Street home, complete with housekeeper, dog - and a family of ghosts anxious to tell her their secrets. Enter Jack Trenholm, a gorgeous writer obsessed with unsolved mysteries. He has reason to believe that diamonds from the Confederate Treasury are hidden in the house. So he turns...

Georgia Chambers sifts through other people's pasts while trying to forget her own. Then her work as a fine china expert sends her to the place she swore she'd never revisit. To embrace her own life -- mistakes and all -- she'll have to find the courage to confront the ghosts of her past.

It's been nine years since Larkin fled Georgetown, South Carolina, vowing never to go back. But when she finds out that her mother has disappeared, she knows she has no choice but to return to the place that she both loves and dreads--and to the family and friends who never stopped wishing for her to come home. Ivy, Larkin's mother, is discovered in the burned out wreckage of her family's ancestral rice plantation, badly injured and unconscious. No...

"When Vivien Walker left her home in the Mississippi Delta, she swore never to go back, as generations of the women in her family had. But in the spring, nine years to the day since she'd left, that's exactly what happens--Vivien returns, fleeing from a broken marriage and her lost dreams for children. What she hopes to find is solace with "Bootsie," her dear grandmother who raised her, a Walker woman with a knack for making everything all right....

"Melanie is only going through the motions of living since refusing Jack's marriage proposal. She misses him desperately, but her broken heart is the least of her problems. Despite an insistence that she can raise their child alone, Melanie is completely unprepared for motherhood, and she struggles to complete renovations on her house on Tradd Street before the baby arrives. When Melanie is roused one night by the sound of a ghostly infant crying,...

Cassie Madison, estranged from her sister, returns home to be with her dying father, intending to leave the sleepy Georgia town immediately after his funeral. Unexpectedly, she inherits the family home. Now she has to stay in Walton until it sells...which happens to be just long enough for her to learn how the power of family, memories and a former love can lead to the most amazing discoveries.

Freelance photographer Suzanne Paris has been on her own since she was fourteen{u2014}and she has no intention of settling down, especially not in a tiny town like Walton, Georgia. She{u2019}s here to hide out for a little while, not to form connections. But no one in Walton plans on making things easy for Suzanne. She can{u2019}t help but feel drawn to this tight-knit community{u2014}or to the town{u2019}s mayor, Joe Warner, and his six kids. But...

Time and again, New York Times bestselling author Karen White has proven herself to be the “ultimate voice of women’s fiction.”*
 
Now, you can revisit the beginning of her signature style in two of her earliest novels—completely revised and together in one volume for the first time.
 
In the Shadow of the Moon
 
When Laura Truitt first...