The beach house

For more than three hundred years, the beach house has kept its secrets. For Eli Landon, it will be his salvation.

After eleven months of hell, Eli Landon is acquitted of his wife's murder due to lack of evidence. He is now a free man, but the brutal and mysterious circumstances of the crime mean that the shadow of suspicion still hangs over him.

With his reputation shattered, nothing remains of the successful lawyer he once was. Unable to face the world again, he decides to take refuge in his beloved grandmother Hester's beach house while she recovers in a nursing home from an unfortunate accident.

Eli returns to the town where he spent the happiest summers of his life in search of solitude, but Abra Walsh, the friendly neighbor whom his grandmother has entrusted with the upkeep of the house (and the emotional recovery of her grandson), is not willing to let him wallow in his misery. Eli doesn't like the idea of this whirlwind of a woman being in the house telling him what to do, but he eventually finds it impossible to resist her powerful attraction. Deep down, he knows very well that Abra is right: the time has come to find out what happened the night he found his wife's lifeless body.

Together they will undertake an exhaustive investigation and unravel a series of clues that will lead them to an unexpected place, much closer than they imagined.

Critics have said...
"Roberts dazzles us again."
Library Journal

"Fascinating... Roberts captivates the reader with enigmatic characters and a fluid plot."
Publishers Weekly

"A must-read for Roberts fans."
Romance Junkies

"A perfect synthesis of romance and suspense. Roberts fans will forget to go to bed."
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