Glass

"Cerise." The pull of her breath flared her nostrils the tiniest bit and lifted her chest. She was beautiful, and priceless, like this house. She didn't deserve to be trapped by all its legends. Because that is all this was, the stories of the past holding her in some vice-like grip, the grip of an old woman who wouldn't let them go.

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Andre Garner, up-and-coming glassmaker, thought the trip to the island was worth the risk. He's been warned the place is full of mystery, that the old woman living there is peculiar and anything can happen. 

Yet the Delacroix glass collection is the stuff of fables. To contribute to it could make his career and set him up for a very long time. 

But soon the stories and legends of the past pull him in, he and the beautiful girl he didn't expect to find there. Trapped together, unable to escape, he finds the most valuable thing inside isn't the glass at all.

A romantic mystery by best-selling author, SUZANNE D. WILLIAMS. 31,000 words.