The Gardener

She didn’t just change his life. She took control of it.

When celebrated novelist John Stone hires a young gardener to restore the grounds of his lakefront estate, he believes he’s found a welcome distraction from grief. Recently widowed and dangerously alone, Stone is unprepared for Vicki Dunn—beautiful, sexual, impulsive, and relentless in her pursuit of everything he has to offer.

What begins as an affair quickly becomes an obsession. Within weeks, Vicki has moved into Stone’s home, empt...