Mistress of the Muse — Suzanne Hoos

SHE WAS COMING HOME…BUT NOTHING WAS THE SAME ANYMORE

When young Ashley Canell returned to the Muse, her family home, she was faced with her father's death and her own unexpected inheritance of the Cape May mansion. But the house was no longer the sunlit haven of her childhood. Within its ill-kept walls lurked dark secrets she had never before known -- secrets which somehow involved her suddenly cold and distant stepcousin, Evan Prescott. Ashley would encounter sinister obstacles as she attempted to renovate the house -- suspicious accidents caused by someone determined to see her efforts fail. And even as she sought comfort in Evan's strong arms, Ashley feared he might be the one who was willing to do anything to stop her from unraveling the shocking mysteries of the Muse.