Emerald

About this book

**From the jacket** *Emerald* takes heroine Carol Hamilton to the intriguing, subtly shadowed world of Palm Springs, California, where a secret reaching back into Hollywood history is about to explode with consequences menacing many lives. The names of Monica Arlen and Saxon Scott have spelled magic to Carol since the days when she watched their marvelous old movies being replayed on television. When flight with her small son is Carol's only refuge from her husband's savage threats, her great-aunt Monica Arlen seems her one sanctuary. Instead, she finds unexpected danger, as well as unexpected love. The drama of Monica and Saxon, created so tragically in the past, must be played out again in the present, with Carol the frightened and unwilling catalyst, fighting for her own life, and for the safety and well-being of her son.

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About the author

Phyllis A. Whitney

3 September 1903 – 8 February 2008

Phyllis Ayame Whitney was born in Yokohama, Japan, the daughter of American parents, and spent her early years in Asia. She began writing early in her teens. In 1918, upon the death of her father, she travelled with her mother to Berkeley, California, and then to San Antonio, Texas. A few years later her mother died, and she moved to Chicago to live with her aunt. After graduating from high school, she began to write seriously, and began to sell her stories to newspapers and pulp magazines while supporting herself by working for The Chicago Public Library and bookstores in Chicago. She married her first husband in 1934. During the 1940s she was a children's book editor for both the Chicago S…