Nocturne for a widow

Summary: Sybil Ingram is at a crossroads. Once she was the toast of the London stage but by 1873, her draw isn't what it used to be and her theater troupe is foundering. When her trusted mentor asks her to take the blame for his financial misdeeds, Sybil sees no choice by to retire from the life she loves and move to America to marry New York City hotel magnate Alcott Lammle. But her path to happiness is cut short when Lammle dies suddenly and in financial ruin. Widowed, penniless and unable to return to England, the determined diva sets out to stake a claim on Brooke House, an eccentric neo-Gothic manor in the wilds of the Hudson River Valley. She soon finds that a ghostly presence wants her gone. Even worse, her claim is challenged by the most insolent, temperamental, maddeningly gorgeous man she's ever met, Roderick Brooke, a former violin prodigy whose career ended in a dark scandal. Soon it's a battle of wills as Sybil matches wits and trades barbs with Roderick, finding herself increasingly drawn to him despite her growing suspicion that there is a connection between him and the entity that haunts Brooke House.