Grimstone

Remi Hayes is flipping Blackleaf Manor, a decaying mansion she inherited from her uncle, in the town of Grimstone. The timing is bad. Her fiancé has cheated on her, her brother Jude keeps getting in her way, and the house may be haunted.

Then her neighbor, Dane Covett, blackmails her. Dane is a doctor, the most eligible bachelor in Grimstone, and the subject of a rumor everyone in town repeats: that he murdered his wife. Remi would rather not believe it. When he stitches a deep cut in her thigh and takes a kiss as his fee, the pull between them gets harder to dismiss.

The renovation soon turns strange and violent. Remi has to work out whether Dane is the presence disturbing her nights or whether he is trying to shield her from something worse inside the house or the town.

This is a romance with a gothic, haunted-house backdrop and a suspicious love interest. The tone mixes dark menace with banter and attraction, and the mystery around Dane and the manor keeps the suspense running alongside the romance.