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Columbella, Paperback / softback Book

Columbella Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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A governess becomes entangled with a dysfunctional and dangerous family in this novel by a New York Times–bestselling “master of suspense” (Mary Higgins Clark).   Finally liberated from her cruel and domineering mother, twenty-eight-year-old schoolteacher Jessica Abbott has accepted a position as governess in Hampden House, a crumbling plantation on the cliffs of St.

Croix. Her charge is Leila Drew, the oppressed teenage daughter of a pathologically punishing mother.

But the vulnerable girl is not Catherine Drew’s only victim.   For years, Catherine’s desperate husband, King, a man to whom Jessica is irresistibly drawn, has been searching for the means to a safe escape—for himself and Leila—from this ruin of a family.

As Jessica becomes further entwined in the violent dynamics of the Drew family, she realizes Catherine’s wretched power may be grounded in a secret that has trapped not only King and Leila, but herself as well.   A recipient of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award, Phyllis A.

Whitney was hailed by Mary Higgins Clark as “a superb and gifted story teller, and a master of suspense.”  

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