Erica Mira drives into a Maine whiteout to chase down the sister who vanished years ago. One black-ice spin later, her car is totaled, her phone is dead, and the only light for miles is a Gilded-Age chateau locked behind a mountain of secrets.
Gabriel Murphy is a former Marine who walked away from his family's hotel empire the day his wife faked her own death and framed him for murder. He's spent two years alone in a house he can't sell and a silence he can't break ā until the woman bleeding on his library floor mistakes him for an angel.
They're snowed in for the duration. So is Tiffany.
She never died. She's been living in the chateau's WWII bomb shelter, listening through the walls, slipping poison into their wine, and waiting for the storm that will finally let her finish what she started.
Forced proximity. Snowed in. Grumpy Marine meets sunshine baker. Gaslit gothic suspense with a killer hiding inside the walls.
USA Today Bestselling Author, Victoria Pinder grew up in Irish Catholic Boston before moving to the Miami sun. Sheās worked in engineering, after passing many tests proving how easy Math came to her. Then hating her life at the age of twenty four, she decided to go to law school. Four years later, after passing the bar and practicing very little, she realized that she hates the practice of law. She refused to one day turn 50 and realize she had nothing but her career and hours at a desk. After realizing she needed change, she became a high school teacher. Teaching is rewarding, but writing is a passion.
During all this time, she always wrote stories to entertain herself or calm down. Her parents are practical minded people demanding a job, and Victoria spent too many years living other peopleās dreams, but when she sat down to see what skill she had that matched what she enjoyed doing, writing became so obvious. The middle school year book when someone wrote in it that one day sheād be a writer made sense when she turned thirty.
Sheās always been determined. She is amazing, adventurous and assured on a regular basis. Her website is Ā www.victoriapinder.com.Ā