A Kiss in Darkness — Carol Goodnight

Broken-hearted from her CIA brother's accidental death, Carolyn Wingate, a successful Midwest construction executive returns from his funeral to find that before his death he'd mailed her a lovely gold-and-diamond chain. Overcome with grief, she runs from everything she's known in a desperate search for solace. Under the gentle swaying moss in the beguiling city of New Orleans she meets and falls in love with Andrew, a handsome, wealthy blue blood. But a boat crash in the murky depths of a secluded bayou begins a string of perilous situations where Carolyn finds herself running again.