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After three years, Jace Montgomery is still grieving over his fianc - e Stacy'smysterious suicide. He hasn't been interested in another woman since her passing, and her family still blames him for her death. While flipping throughone of her old paperbacks, Jace discovers a photo of a house... read more

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Summary

Jace Montgomery has bought an old house or estate and it has a hair raising history lots of it. He has bought it with this in mind. And he intends to find some answers as his wife to be has committed suicide or at least is said to have and her step mother and sister had both shown up quickly... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

Cast of Characters/Important People

  • Jace Montgomery: hero of the novel?
  • Stacey Evans: Fiance of Jace who commits suicide and leaves many questions behind of the cause of this travesty.
  • Uncle Mike: Jaces Uncle
  • Uncle Frank: Jaces Uncle
  • Mrs. Alice Brown: cook and houekeeper
  • Mr. Hatch: gardener
  • Mick: young man who works w/for Hatch, Gladys' fiance
  • Gladys: fiance of Mick, she also lands herself the job of Jace's secretary
  • Mr. Carou: barkeeper if bar below the apartment where Stacey "killed herself".
  • Ellen Carou: wife of barkeeper
  • Kathrine Nightingale Stewart: daughter of the original owner of the mansion/house. who sopposedly drank poison to kill herself just hours before her wedding to some man.
  • Tony Vine: a forbidden love, an older man who Stacey was seeing while she was in boarding school in England.
  • Nigh (Nitghingale Augustace Smith): named after the Kathrine Nightingale Stewart, reporter and assistant and now lover of Jace. helping him to solve the mystery of his fiances death and also the death of Anne Stewart, and Danny Longstreet.

First Sentence

The house was enormous, frighteningly ugly and Jace Montgomery had just paid 4.5 million dollars for it.

Series

This is book 22 in the Montgomery series.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Jude Deveraux (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Dagmara Dominczyk's (Reader)
 

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