She might as well dive into a pit of snakes.
Elena Romano knew it the moment she laid eyes on James Richard Blackwood—devastatingly handsome, infuriatingly arrogant heir to Blackmoor Castle. The kind of man who could strip her defenses with one scorching look.
She came to the windswept cliffs of Cornwall to restore his crumbling fortress—a brooding castle of black stone that mirrored its master’s dark soul. But Elena had a hidden agenda: uncovering the truth behind her mother’s death, buried somewhere in the castle’s moldy depths among lingering ghosts and forgotten secrets.
Under normal circumstances, she wouldn’t stop to sniff the roses in a place so dark and foreboding. But this mission was personal.
James fights her at every turn. He doesn’t want her expertise, doesn’t want her questions, and sure as hell doesn’t want the way she makes him feel when she challenges him.
Yet with every heated argument, they spiral deeper into something that terrifies them both.
Then Elena discovers a diary hidden in the castle’s depths—and the horrific truth behind a ruby pendant that could shatter everything they’re building together.
“Enemies to lovers. Forbidden love. What happens when the past demands a sacrifice neither is willing to make?”
The Bridge Club Murder Mysteries 