StillWatch Author:Mary Higgins Clark Pat Traymore, a talented young television journalist, is about to break into the high-powered world of Washington, D.C., politics with a documentary series called "Women in Government." — Attractive, intelligent, a born interviewer, Pat is also deeply in love with a distinguished congressman. Seemingly, she has everything going for her - except ... more »that she has moved back into the beautiful Georgetown mansion where a terrible crime destroyed her childhood. And even before she arrives, someone, a stranger, is making threatening telephone calls, warning her to stay away...
The subject of her first program is a woman Pat has always admired: Abigail Jennings, U.S. senator from Virginia. A former beauty queen, Abigail has become one of the most powerful people in Washington, at the very center of the capital's political and social life.
Senator Jennings is on the verge of the greatest moment in her career of public service, a triumphant moment for all women - for the President is about to nominate her as the first woman vice president of the United States. But Pat Traymore's search for the secrets of her own childhood threatens to reveal a past that has little in common with the senator's polished image...
Mary Higgins Clark takes the reader into the glamorous world of Washington - a White House gala dinner, the Georgetown parties, the floor of the Senate, the fast-paced, high-pressure, behind-the-scenes life of television news - while weaving together with masterly skill a spellbinding plot in which two women's ambitions collide, exploding in a terrifying confrontation that brings each of them face to face with her own past - and the mystery that connects them.« less