The Collage

Allison Summer seems to have it all: she’s young, beautiful, newly married . . . and stands to inherit a fortune when she succeeds her legendary grandfather as head of the Carmichael farming consortium. But after years away from home, the young heiress returns to the family estate of “Les Capucines” hiding an ugly secret.

Allison’s destiny becomes further darkened when her husband’s behaviour mysteriously changes and nothing remains of the gentle and passionate man she married.

Then she meets her grandfather’s right-hand man, ruggedly handsome Marvin Garland. She tries to keep her distance — but Marvin is determined to win her trust and her friendship, at any cost. When he also wins her heart, Marvin and Allison are plunged into a nightmare of greed, deception and long-buried family secrets.

As strange accidents begin happening at “Les Capucines,” Allison and Marvin are snared in a web of violence and murder . . . Because Allison’s husband is not who he seems to be . . . And the lie she has been living may be far more dangerous than she ever knew . . .

Rene Natan is professor emeritus with the department of computer science at a Canadian University. Author of several technical papers, she also wrote another novel of the romantic suspense genre, “Mountains of Dawn,” available through Amazon.com.