The truth was never lost. It was taken away.
She came home for a funeral. To claim her inheritance, she has to stay for a year. Someone may make sure she doesn't survive it.
Aubrey Langford hasn't set foot at Blackwood Estate since she was six years old. When her estranged aunt dies unexpectedly, Aubrey returns to the Blue Ridge Mountains expecting a funeral, a few painful memories, and a quick trip back to the life she built in Philadelphia.
Instead, Mabel Blackwood leaves her everything.
The winery. The land. The legacy.
There's only one catch: Aubrey must remain at Blackwood for 365 days before the inheritance is truly hers.
Bennett McCrae doesn't understand Mabel's decision. He devoted years to Blackwood, and now everything she built belongs to a woman he's never met—a woman who hasn't been back since she was a child. He's convinced Aubrey will stay exactly as long as the will requires, claim her inheritance, and leave.
Aubrey has no intention of proving anything to Bennett. But the more they clash, the harder it becomes to ignore an attraction neither of them expected.
Then everything changes.
Mabel didn't die of natural causes. She was murdered.
As Sheriff Burke Scott investigates, old betrayals surface and long-buried family secrets begin to unravel. And Aubrey starts to wonder whether her aunt's final decision was about more than an inheritance.
Someone knows why Mabel brought Aubrey back to Blackwood.
Someone has already killed to keep the truth hidden.
And Aubrey has 365 days to uncover what her aunt left behind—if she lives that long.
