Falling for the Enemy

After returning to her, hometown to settle her late mother's estate the protagonist discovers a stranger already living in the abandoned house next door - a man who claims to be restoring it. But he knows things about her mother's death that no outsider should. Every time she confronts him, he gives her just enough truth to keep her close...and just enough lies to keep her afraid. She finds a photograph of him in her mother's belongings. The sheer volume of its overwhelming. Decades of memories. It was more than just sorting through belongings; It was an excavation of a life, a spiritual archaeology that threatened to unearth more than Maribel was prepared to confront.