The Woman the Dead Refused to Surrender

The Woman the Dead Refused to Surrender Olivia Carter loses her job, her home, and her boyfriend in a single day. By midnight, everything she owns fits inside a soaked backpack: eleven dollars, a photograph of her dead mother, and a brass key she has never known how to use. Then Sebastian Romano finds her sleeping at a Manhattan bus stop. He offers a warm room, an unlocked door, and a chance to leave. But he already knows her name—and his housekeeper knows things about Olivia’s mother that no stranger should remember. When another man sends Olivia evidence linking Sebastian to her shattered life, she refuses to remain a grateful guest. She demands answers. Why did her boyfriend receive two hundred thousand dollars? Why did Sebastian’s company contact her employer? And why has a key she carried for twenty years suddenly become worth killing for? Someone in this house knows what happened to her mother. Olivia intends to find out who.