by Nora Roberts
First published 2014
Maggie Fitzgerald buys an empty house in Morganville, Maryland, seeking refuge from Los Angeles after her husband dies in an accident. The award-winning songwriter wants peace away from celebrity attention. She hires Cliff Delaney, who runs a local landscaping business, to restore her overgrown property. The renovation takes a dark turn when they uncover human remains buried on the grounds. The victim has been dead for ten years, exactly as long as the house sat empty. Police investigate everyone connected to the property and the dead man. Maggie discovers that people she has grown to trust, including Cliff, had reasons to want the victim gone. She must decide whether to rely on the same gut feelings that led her to Maryland and to Cliff, or whether trusting the wrong person will destroy her chance at a new beginning.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, contemporary
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Morganville, Maryland, Los Angeles
Period: 10 years
384 pages · ebook · Harlequin Books