When Wylie Lewis sells his half of the detective agency he owned to move into the house his grandfather willed him in the small town of Earlston, he expects he'll have work to do refurbishing and redecorating it. He doesn't expect that Garry Parish, the handsome restaurant owner who lives two doors down, would offer his assistance, as well as put him in contact with Carl, a handyman who could do most of the manual labor.<br><br>Wylie also doesn't expect to be the sheriff's prime suspect when Nelly, a young woman who works for Garry, disappears a week after Wylie arrives in town. As if that isn't bad enough, a second woman, Emma, vanishes a few days later.<br><br>Wylie, Garry, and Carl team up to try to locate them before the sheriff decides to arrest Wylie, but things take a deadly turn when they find Nelly's body. Will they be able to discover who the killer is in time to save Emma, while Wylie and Garry deal with their growing attraction to each other? Or will Wylie become the killer's next target, with deadly results?

New Man in Town

“You’d better. I don’t want to worry that you died in some freak accident on the highway.”


“Not happening,” Wylie retorted. He gave John a fast hug. “Take care of yourself.”


“You, too,” John said, returning the hug. “Drive safe.”


He got back to his apartment a few minutes before the movers arrived. Once they’d packed everything into their truck and left, he got the suitcase he was taking with him, which held a couple of changes of clothes, his personal items, and his laptop, locked up for the last time, and went down to give Mrs. James his keys.


“There’s still some furniture up there that I don’t need,” he told her.


“No problem. I’ll call the local shelter to come pick it up. What they can’t use, they’ll sell.”


“You’re a good woman,” he replied. “But then I knew that.”


She gave an embarrassed shrug and hugged him. “You take care, and email sometimes to let me know how you’re doing.”


Chapter 3