Pretty Birds of Passage — Roslynn Griffith

Secret love, unspoken danger -- Two years of forbidden love in Italy had dampened architect Aurelia Kincaid's spirit. When opportunity brought her back home to Chicago to work for an esteemed firm, she seized upon the chance to start her life anew. Headstrong Aurelia refused to be intimidated by anyone, not even her stormy fellow architect Liam O'Rourke, for whim she felt an unwanted attraction.

Then a series of gruesome murders revealed that several beautiful women had been mummified for all time by a deranged killer. The crimes fascinated Aurelia professionally, but seemed far removed from her world -- until a new coffin was discovered with Aurelia's raven hair and voluptuous mouth painted on its lid. As the threads of horror tightened around her, Aurelia reached out for the security of one man's arms. But had she escaped the murderer or fallen further into his deadly web?