Vera Bitter is dead, but her secrets have yet to be buried.
After the tragic death of Bridget’s parents, her grandmother took her in. Vera Bitter raised her from behind a closed door—cold and uncaring from the moment she arrived at Bitter House. After Bridget’s high school graduation, Vera kicked her out without so much as a goodbye, and Bridget never heard from her again. Which is why, when she receives word of Vera’s passing and discovers she’s inherited the family manor, she’s immediately filled with dread.
Those worries are amplified when she arrives at Bitter House after years away to find an enigmatic piece of her past waiting for her. Growing up, there was only one person Bridget distrusted more than her grandmother, and that was Cole Warner—the son of Vera’s house manager and the bane of her childhood existence. Now, he’s her new housemate.
Owning the house she was once forced to leave with a man she’s always despised forces Bridget to confront feelings and questions she’s been running from since the day she was driven away from Bitter House.
My review:
Once she is forced to share the house with the son of Vera Bitter's secretary,things start to spark up. Though Claire, the secretary took good care of her she and Cole fought bitterly as kids. But now the proximity between the two started paving the way for a blooming romance. Then she starts receiving messages warning her how bad her grandma was. Each letter proved to be true until finally the truth comes out on the 7th letter. Vera wrote those letters and instructed her neighbors to gradually give it to Brigitte.
The bodies in the garden were the bodies of Cole's abusive father and the guy who killed Brigitte's parents. The secret tunnels let Vera and her neighbors save abused women and give them alibis while they got rid of their husbands.
What started out as a promising novel fell flat in the end because Brigitte and Cole for the next ten years continued the crimes with the neighbors. I thought they would end this crime spree and live happy ever after. Apparently not!
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