Summer of Secrets — Nancy Sheehan

Having just finished an assignment, photojournalist Chelsea Lane is at loose ends--but not for long. Her Aunt Alison, a Chicago lawyer, engages her to spend the summer in Connecticut, probing discreetly into her latest case, involving the refusal of the wealthy and eccentric Tyler family to sell Stone Lake Mountain to the National Park Service. Aunt Alison's client is one of the Tyler heirs, and he wants to sell the mountain, but can't without the cooperation of the others.

Under the guise of an artist-in-residence, Chelsea establishes herself on the Tyler estate and tries to learn the truth about the feuding family members. All are apparently bound together by mutual distrust and dark secrets they will stop at nothing to protect. Aware she is on dangerous ground, Chelsea feels safe only when she is with handsome Mark McKenzie, the caretakers' grandson. But when Mark warns her that "nothing at Stone Lake is as it seems," she feels a chill of foreboding. Perhaps Mark, too, is not what he appears to be...