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description: From the New York Times bestselling master of suspense: A womans mysterious past is unearthed during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake (Mary Higgins Clark). Sara Bishop was raised in Chicago but her heart belongs in San Francisco where her childhood sweetheart Ritchie Temple has moved to pursue a career in architecture. Convinced he feels the same way for her she hopes his fiance the manipulative Judith Renwick is just a passing fancy. And now Sara has packed her bags to prove it. Sarahs mother is not only concerned by her daughters pursuit of an elusive romance shes also scared of the city itselfand the secret she and Saras father buried there years ago. Once Sara arrives on the far side of the Golden Gate she finds herself in the midst of a tantalizing puzzle involving Ritchie Judith and Judiths mysterious brother. She soon discovers a monstrously wicked matriarch nursing a strange and unfathomable vengeance in her Nob Hill mansion. And one fateful morning when the earth moves and the city is set afire the pieces of Saras past will emerge from the ashesbut will it be too late to save her? A recipient of the Agatha Award for Lifetime Achievement Phyllis A. Whitney is the acknowledged Queen of the American gothics ( The New York Times ). 
language: English
title: The Trembling Hills
publisher: Prentice Hall