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

“It’s okay. I know I should have visited more often but…”


“You had your own life. Got it. Private detective, from the rumors I heard. You going to set up to do that here?”


“Not even. I’m not certain what I’ll do, when the time comes, but that’s at the bottom of my list.”


“Probably a good thing. I don’t think you’d get any clients. We’re hardly a hotbed of crime and what little there is Sheriff Kingman can take care of. All right, I should leave you to your walk. It was good to meet you.”


Wylie continued on his way after Frank headed to his front porch. He didn’t meet anyone else before returning home. After locking the doors, contrary to what Alicia had said about the local custom, he settled down to read for a while and then headed to bed.4


“When you said bright and early, you meant it,” Wylie said as he let Carl into the house.


Chapter 12