Barbara Michaels Books

An antique bridal quilt captivates Rachel Grant, who is drawn to its handmade beauty and the belief that women infused their textiles with protective magic. However, as she becomes increasingly aware of the quilt's growing power, she realizes it harbors a dark influence that affects her thoughts and actions. Despite her logical inclinations, Rachel cannot ignore the sinister aura surrounding the quilt, which threatens the well-being of her loved ones and unveils a chilling legacy intertwined with its fabric.

Who was her father? When twenty-two-year-old Haskell Malone accidentally discovers damning proof that the dead war hero whose name she bears is not her father, she is shattered. The revelation only confirms the dark fear that has haunted her since childhood. In fact, what little she knows about her birth and her mother's subsequent death, is a fragile web of evasions and lies. Determined to expose the truth at any cost, Haskell takes a job at Chicago's famed Oriental Institute in the city where her mother once lived and loved. But as she searched the shadows of the past, she finds that the truth can sometimes be deadly.

Posing as an expert gardener, Diana Reed, a shrewd, determined lawyer, appears at the Nicholson estate determined to find her missing younger brother, who worked there as a caretaker. By the author of Into the Darkness. Reprint.

Ellen March seeks solace in a secluded house in the woods, hoping to heal from her failed marriage and embrace small-town life. Her new neighbor, Norman McKay, offers a potential new beginning, but as night falls, eerie visions disrupt her peace—shadowy figures, a ghostly woman, and a spectral cat haunt her. What was meant to be a sanctuary turns into a nightmarish prison, forcing Ellen to confront the past she wished to escape. The story intertwines themes of isolation, haunting memories, and the search for safety.

The house next door to Pat Robbins—eerily identical to the home Pat shares with her college-aged son, Mark—has been empty for years, the darkness within seeming to warn all to stay away. Now new tenants are moving in: affable Josef Friedrichs and his lovely daughter, Kathy, who has stolen Mark's heart on first glance. But something is not right—something old and secret lurking in the shadows that fresh paint and new furnishings cannot mask or exorcise. There is evil alive in the heart of the house next door—and it means to feed on the fears of two families . . . and drag Kathy Friedrichs with it into peril.

A girl living in restored Williamsburg has dreams that seem to connect her with a man who lived two hundred years earlier.

Set in the isolated King's Island, Maine, the story revolves around Joanne McMullen's growing concern for her sister Mary, who is struggling with the devastating loss of her child. As Mary becomes increasingly obsessed with a haunting, childlike wail in the woods, Joanne fears for her sister's mental stability. The tension escalates when Joanne herself begins to hear the eerie cries, blurring the lines between reality and madness. The novel delves into themes of grief, familial bonds, and the psychological impact of loss.

An English Gothic mansion, transported stone by stone to the isolated Pennsylvania hills, Grayhaven Manor calls to Anne and Kevin. Here is the ideal summer retreat—a perfect location from which to write the book they have long planned together. But there are distractions in the halls and shadows of the looming architectural wonder luring them from their work—for they are not alone. Something lives on here from Grayhaven's shocking past—something beautiful, powerful, and eerily seductive—unlocking the doors of human desire, of fear ... and unearthly passion.

Renovating an old mansion, Andrea and her brother end up in a terrifying struggle to stop a timeless evil force.

A stranger has come to Middleburg, Maryland, a visitor from abroad with a mysterious purpose. But this quaint, affluent community has dark secrets of its own. And when the interloper, Peter Stewart, becomes involved with the bewitching, seductive ward of noted local author Kate More, the townfolk fear the chilling past they are hiding will no longer be safe. For Middleburg has a colonial history of malevolent sorceries and obscene sacrifice. And when the terrible pot is stirred, murder may be the least of the evils to emerge from the unholy brew.