In the Dark Author:Meagan McKinney The newspaper headline read "Heiress Jacqueline Blum Missing. Authorities Believe Foul Play Likely". The news hit her niece, Alyn, particularly hard. She had only recently received an invitation from Jacqueline to visit Blumfield, the fabulous estate and horse farm. After years of estrangement, it seemed Jacqueline wanted to finally ge... more »t to know her only living relative.
Knowing there was probably nothing she could do, Alyn nevertheless headed to Blumfield in hopes that her aunt would return safely home. The sinister cast of characters in her aunt's employ and a dark and mysterious insurance investigator, Peter Youngblood, convince her to begin her own search for the truth about Jacqueline, a search that will lead her to discover the true definition of unthinkable betrayal.« less
Contemporary romance involving a mysterious death, the neice trying to solve it, and the man serving as her guide through "New York City's underbelly".
Alyn Blum-Jones is the only living relation to her aunt Jacqueline, whom she has never met because her mother was dis-inherited when she married Alyn's father. Now a year after Alyn's mothers death Jacqueline wants to meet Alyn. On the eve of her visit to her aunt's magnificent estate, her aunt is missing, presumed dead.
When Alyn arrives at her aunts' estate she meets Peter Youngblood, a private investigator for the insurance company who will pay out $20 million if Jacqueline is found dead. Of course they don't hit it off, the stableman and the butler (whatever they call him in the book, I can't remeember!) immediately file a motion to reverse her aunts' will and immediately Alyns' life is in danger. Of course Peter is the only man to protect her.