Whisper His Sin / The Evil Friendship (Stark House Suspense Classics)

WHISPER HIS SIN When Ferris Sullivan first meets Paul Lasher at Jackson University, he hates him. Sullivan isn't like the other young men—hadn't his mother reminded him often enough? He needs his privacy. But Lasher, the senior in charge of the dorm, assigns him a room with two others, and keeps the private room for himself. Still, Lasher takes a liking to the stand-offish Sullivan, and a gradual if begrudging friendship develops. During a break, they take a trip to New York together, where Lasher introduces Sullivan to a few of his flamboyant friends. Lasher has never considered himself gay—after all, he has a girlfriend, doesn't he?—but that weekend he falls in love with young Sullivan. They begin to make plans together. If only Sullivan's mother hadn't found out it. Horrified, she threatened to expose them. What they need is an escape plan. Leave it to Lasher to come up with the perfect solution. THE EVIL FRIENDSHIP Mary Drew Edlin had never had any friends. When her family moves to Weerdale, Mary Drew enters Chillam, an expensive girls' boarding school. There she meets a kindred spirit, the beautiful, dark-haired Martha Kent. They have so much in common. They begin to make up stories and characters together, creating an active fantasy life. But popular Evelyn Rush wants Martha for her own special friend, and when Martha rejects her advances, she stirs up some very serious trouble. All Mary Drew and Martha want is to be left alone. If only it were that simple. Because the closer they are drawn together, the more everyone seems to be against them--particularly Mary Drew's fretful mother. There is nothing they can do about Rush…but Mrs. Edlin is another matter entirely.