Bitter House -- Kiersten Modglin

<p><strong>Vera Bitter is dead, but her secrets have yet to be buried.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>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.</p><p><br></p><p>Those worries are amplified when she arrives at Bitter House after years away to find an enigmatic piece of her past waiting for her. <strong>Growing up, there was only one person Bridget distrusted more than her grandmother, and that was Cole Warner</strong>-the son of Vera's house manager and the bane of her childhood existence. <strong>Now, he's her new housemate.</strong></p><p>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.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Then the first letter arrives.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>And with it, a world of secrets, darkness, and deception is unlocked. Years ago, Bridget tried and failed to find sanctuary inside the shadowy halls of Bitter House, and as she struggles to imagine a future there now, she discovers a terrifying truth: behi