Sudden Silence — Loretta Barry

An ancient kimono, symbol of a rare honor making Becky Penterman the ne-chan - blessing child - of an esteemable Japanese family, is the instrument by which she returned to Japan to fulfill her time-old duty. But the palatial home at Tanizaki is a maze of silk shoji panels that open soundlessly to reveal room upon hidden room, shadowed courtyards, cloistered gardens, each harboring a piece of the terrifying secret that plagues her adopted family; each holding an insane threat of entrapment from a man who is supposed to be dead!