The Second Elena: A Gothic Romantic Suspense Novel

She was hired to rebuild a dead woman's face. The family wanted her to wear it.Vivian Marsh reconstructs the unidentified. Bone first. Names later. When a powerful Greek-American shipping family offers her more money than she can refuse, the job sounds simple: a memorial bust of Elena Kastanis, lost at sea three years ago-no body, no wreckage, no ring.Then the measurements arrive. Nine of eleven match Vivian's own skull.At the Kalliste estate on the Florida Gulf, photographs become a script. A voice to copy. A way of holding a glass. A dying patriarch who looks at Vivian and says a private name no file ever recorded. The housekeeper carries a tray twice a day to a wing nobody mentions. A wedding band the sea was supposed to have swallowed turns up in a jar of pigment.Dimitri Vassilakis hired her to keep his father lucid a little longer. He did not expect to want the woman wearing his fiancée's face. She did not expect the dead woman to still be breathing.A contemporary gothic romantic suspense of identity, desire, and a family that would rather lie than grieve.For readers of Rebecca, Mexican Gothic, and slow-burn romantic suspense who want a house that keeps its own dead.- Dual POV - Forced proximity / "become her" - Family secrets and a locked wing - Morally gray hero, clinical heroine - Heat with consequences-not dark-romance torture