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    By Henriette Gyland

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    A woman’s return to rural England stirs up family secrets—and a chance at love—in this award-winning, “chilling [and] gripping” novel of romantic suspense (Christina Courtenay, award-winning author of Highland Storms).
     
    When Dr. Lia Thompson’s grandmother Ivy dies unexpectedly, Lia reluctantly returns to Norfolk to handle her estate. It’s an uneasy homecoming, raising old fears and new suspicions. When Lia discovers her grandmother was a town gossip with plenty of secrets, she wonders if there was more to her death than meets the eye.
     
    In her search for the truth, Lia finds an ally in ex-navy man Aidan Morrell—who also happens to be her high school crush. But the emotionally scarred Aidan has secrets of his own, and his motives for helping Lia may be hidden in a very dark place. In a world of increasing danger, is Aidan someone Lia can trust to help retrace her grandmother’s final steps? Or is Lia slowly being edged toward the same chilling fate?
     
    “A mystery as chilling as the wild Norfolk setting, with a passionate romance. A gripping read.” —Christina Courtenay
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateNov 7, 2012
    ISBN9781781890394
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    • 3/5
      I kept wondering and wondering, yes this book brought me quite the mystery to solve.

      Lia is a doctor who comes to Norfolk to settle her grandmother's estate as her mother refuses too. Yes drama at the beginning. Lia is smart, sensible, but with a few issues from her past.

      Norfolk is painted as harsh, those who live there, well live there, they know the land. But it fits well with the story, because something is going on. Someone was watching Lia's grandmother, and did someone kill her? That is the mystery. Because strange things keep on happening while Lia stays there.

      There is also a friendship that slowly builds, a friendship that might or might not lead to romance. Aidan has his own issues from the war, and there is secrets he is keeping too. Those I did figure out..after a while. I also liked how their story was built, there was friendship and something that could be more. It was real.

      The mystery was good, so many questions and so many different roads to take.

      A good suspense novel, with a hint of romance.