For Leigh Martin, beauty was a business, a blessing, and a curse. The tawny model had everything but the love she needed most. That hadn't concerned her stage-struck mother, who sacrificed everything in the relentless shove to stardom. Now, suddenly, the glamorous New York life was forgotten. Her mother was dead. A suicide. And Leigh was going home to Ville-Marie. Ville-Marie, in beautiful, desolate Quebec. Her roots. But where were the Martin graves? The Martin relatives? The father Leigh sought didn't exist. The past she yearned for was buried. She had to discover the truth, no matter where the trail led. And Adam St. John, the handsome pilot with a mysterious mission of his own, was eager to help her explore the path that would lead to kidnapping, madness—and murder!