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

Thursday, day three of his new life, began as the previous one had with bright sunlight coming through the bedroom window. This time, however, Wylie had food, so when he got to the kitchen he fixed a breakfast of eggs, bacon, and toast. When he finished it, he started on the chore of moving all the furniture, plus the unpacked boxes, into the middle of the main room.


I’m going to have muscles like Dwayne Johnson by the time I’ve finished with everything.He laughed at the idea as he got the last box stacked on top of the dining table and wiped the sweat off his forehead.


Chapter 9