Inheritance for a Stranger

Nora Ellis has spent fourteen months waiting for news of her missing husband. Then a lawyer calls: a woman she has never met has left her a house on the Maine coast.Evelyn Harrow's family wants to know why a stranger has inherited their mother's home. Nora wants the same answer.Inside the house, she finds photographs, letters, and financial records documenting decades of her own life. Evelyn helped fund her education, opened doors in her career, and paid for her mother's rehabilitation. Nora had believed these were lucky breaks or acts of ordinary kindness. She never knew they came from the same woman.But Evelyn's interest went far beyond helping. As Nora follows the paper trail, she discovers that people she trusts have withheld parts of her past—and that her husband encountered the Harrow family shortly before he disappeared.Now Nora has a reason to question the final message he sent her.With the inheritance under scrutiny and someone breaking into the house to remove evidence, Nora must uncover what Evelyn wanted from her and what happened when her husband got in the way. The answers could bring an end to her waiting. They could also cost her relationships she has relied on all her life.An Inheritance for a Stranger is a standalone psychological suspense novel about family secrets, a missing husband, and the devastating consequences of mistaking control for love.