Chapter 17
Rebel Cayne dropped from label after disappointing sales.
-Interstellar Music News
MarigoldThe storm didn’t break the heat. The house’s cooling unit, ironically, broke. Older, the machine strained to control the temperature inside the house, creating a hot, stuffy environment. The heat amplified her unease. It was hard to feel at home when every room had been scrubbed so thoroughly of the previous wife that her absence was practically a chalk outline of a murder victim.
Not murder. The courts ruled her death an accident.
So here Mari was, weeks into her happily ever after, hot, sticky, and living in a haunted house.
Make no mistake, the house was definitely haunted. The old farmhouse Winter rented on the island had been warm and comfortable, if a bit impersonal. This build
