Too Hot to Handle — Norma Tadlock Johnson

At the death of her stepfather, Stewart Collins, Angie Evans inherits the modest house in a small town on Puget Sound in which he has lived since Angie's mother's died. Wanting nothing more than to dispose of the house, put her unhappy memories behind her, and to get back to her job as a gardener in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, Angie is not prepared for what she finds in her old home town.