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When Miss Edi passes away, she leaves Jocelyn Minton all her worldly possessions, including an eighteenth-century house and a letter with clues to a mystery that began in 1941. In an attempt to understand the legacy that has been left to her, Jocelyn digs into Miss Edi's mystery and soon discovers some shocking surprises about her family's history and a man with his own mysterious past.

Just as Alix Madsen is finishing up architecture school, Adelaide Kingsley dies and wills her, for one year, the use of a charming nineteenth-century Nantucket house. The elderly woman's relationship to the Madsen family is a mystery to the spirited Alix -- fresh from a romantic breakup -- but for reasons of her own Alix accepts the quirky bequest, in part because it gives her time to plan her best friend's storybook wedding. But unseen forces move...

A rising star at a Manhattan corporation, Fiona Burkenhalter accompanies the handsome Ace Montgomery on a fishing expedition in the Florida Everglades to handle a new account. After they become embroiled in a murder and end up being Florida's most wanted couple, they desperately search for the real killer, while an irresistible chemistry flares between them.