Gifted musician Catherine Clayton was born into a life of wealth and privilege. Following the death of her father, she makes a bold decision she hopes would make him proud: she’s using the family money to establish a music school and offer free lessons to the underprivileged. A providential suggestion from an old college friend leads Catherine to select Riley, New York, as the perfect location for her new school.
Hit hard by the economic downturn, Riley personifies economic hardship: peeling paint, overgrown landscapes, and damaged buildings. But the damage runs much deeper than Catherine first realizes. Two years ago, Riley was rocked by weeks of vandalism followed by the brutal murder of beautiful elementary school secretary Olivia Perry. Everyone in town loved Olivia—but especially the two men with whom she was caught in a love triangle. Though the murder remains unsolved, Catherine receives ominous warnings that one of these men, Adam Becket, is responsible for one girl’s death. Unimpressed by the lack of evidence against him, Catherine is drawn to the shy but endearing Adam. Could he really have been involved in Olivia’s murder?
Just as Catherine is settling in and getting to know Adam, a vandal strikes again, and it’s eerily reminiscent of the events surrounding Olivia’s murder. The death threats splashed on the walls prove that killer is back—and this time, it’s Catherine who wonders if she’s come to the wrong place at the wrong time.
Title: Shadowed
Author: Stephanie Black
Publisher: Covenant
Release Date: September 1, 2012
ISBN: 978-1-62108-280-4
Size: 288 pages, 6×9, softcover
Genre: Suspense
If you like real good suspense…then you will LOVE this book!
Catherine is just trying to find a nice town who is in need of her musical talents.
She is trying to give the gift of music to those who cannot afford it on their own.
But when she arrives in Riley, New York she is immediately drawn into the vandalism that has just taken place…
And the town is drawn up into the murder case that happened two years earlier.
Suspicions fly, feelings get hurt, and the hunt for the true killer is on.