A graphic designer discovers the payment for her recent job comes with a dark secret in this romantic suspense novel by a New York Times bestseller.Fun and a little hard work. That''s all Tess Haviland has in mind when Ike Grantham pays her for her graphic design work with the run-down nineteenth-century carriage house on Boston''s North Shore.Then Ike disappears, and Tess finds herself with much more than a simple weekend project to get her out of the city. It''s not just the rumors that the carriage house is haunted—it''s the neighbors: six-year-old Dolly Thorne, her reclusive babysitter, Harley Beckett . . . and especially Dolly''s father, Andrew Thorne, who has his own ideas about why Tess has turned up next door.But when Tess discovers a human skeleton in her dirt cellar, she begins to ask questions about the history of the carriage house, the untimely death of Andrew''s wife . . . and Ike''s disappearance. Questions a desperate killer wants to silence before the truth reveals that someone got away with murder . . .Originally published in 2001.Praise for The Carriage House"Carla Neggers is great. She''s done it again with The Carriage House—I love this book!" —Janet Evanovich
