By Anne Avery
**''GRAND HOUSE''**... *It was a huge old mausoleum, a place where p's and q's mattered more than people did.* **Kate had escaped it once, though it still haunted her dreams, along with bitter memories of the boy she'd loved.** *Now she was back to claim a forgotten legacy, and Elliot was a grown man, no longer gentle but hard and dangerous.* **People said he was a killer, but the fire between them leaped as fiercely as ever,** *making Kate wonder whether her mother's bequest to her had been the glittering diamonds for which she searched or a proclivity for giving her heart to an ill-fated love.**--bk cvr/Goodreads/Amazon/FictionDB***
Severity reflects intensity, not value — “central theme” means a warning is a core part of the book, not that the book is bad.