She saw Banda, his proud black face beaming. They were a part of those years, a part of my life. Where have all the years gone? She watched the dancing ghosts.
I don’t feel ninety, Kate Blackwell thought. She had fine, white hair that once had been a luxuriant black cascade, and against the graceful folds of her ivory velvet dress, her skin had the soft translucence old age sometimes brings.
A proud bone structure, dawn-gray eyes and a stubborn chin, a blending of her Scottish and Dutch ancestors. She was a slim, petite woman, with a regal bearing that made her appear taller than she was. Not counting the ghosts, Kate Blackwell thought wryly. There were one hundred people at the party at Cedar Hill House, in Dark Harbor, Maine. Kate Blackwell watched them mingle with the flesh-and-blood people, and in her mind, the scene was a dreamlike fantasy as the visitors from another time and place glided around the dance floor with the unsuspecting guests in black tie and long, shimmering evening gowns. Taut with suspense and vivid characterization, and with an unnervingly realistic premise that could alter our lives, ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK is Sheldon at the top of his form.The large ballroom was crowded with familiar ghosts come to help celebrate her birthday. Philadelphia neighbourhood with a new 'uncle' every month, believed she had at last found safety and contentment in Paris, married to a brilliant scientist. But are the mysterious deaths connected to this volatile secret? And can it be further protected? Thrown together, the women could not be more different: Diane Stevens is a well-connected, affluent artist from the Upper East Side. If properly handled, the outcome of this could deliver unbelievable power into the company's hands. But are they being targeted because one of them is the prosecution witness at a famous criminal trial? Or is there a connection to the mystery behind their husband's deaths? Meanwhile, Tanner Kingsley, Chief Executive of an international Think Tank created only seven years ago, is on the cusp of an amazing discovery which could alter the future of the world. Two women - the widows of two of the dead - find themselves under ruthless attack and are drawn together in fear, confusion and for mutual protection. In New York, Denver, Paris and Berlin, four people have died separately in apparent accidents. And, like his seventeen previous books, it is destined for a top place on bestseller lists everywhere. The new novel that Sidney Sheldon's millions of fans all over the world have been waiting for.
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