Dance with the Devil — Merabeth James

It seemed to Mersea Jones that everyone she ever cared about abandoned her from an early age starting with her mother when she was just eight years old. To protect herself, she began to build a wall around her heart…brick by brick…year by year hoping it would protect her from the pain of loss. It was the death of her best friend that laid the final one. She had seen her through all the rough patches she'd experienced growing up in a bizarre household populated by cats and her Aunt Merabelle with her many eccentricities. Honoring her request to have her ashes scattered off the lighthouse on Lingermere Island, she packs up and heads that way. Soon after she arrives, she is warned that the new owner of the ruined lighthouse is dangerous, but is determined to keep her promise at all cost. All would have gone smoothly if she hadn't bumped into the very one she'd been told to avoid….the tall, darkly handsome recluse the locals called the Devil of Black Rock Point and with good reason as she would soon find out.