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

“Hope the colors work with your new paint job.”


“I don’t think that will be a problem. You know the color I chose is very neutral.”


“True.” Carl finished his sandwich, took his plate to the sink, and said, “‘Bout time I got back to it.”


“And I need to tackle what’s in the storage shed.” Wylie gave a mock shudder, earning a laugh from Carl in response.


The majority of what was packed into the boxes in the shed turned out to be old pots and pans, and bedding and towels, that should have been thrown out years ago, as well as magazines and newspapers Wylie’s grandfather had saved for…Hell, who knows why?He hauled those boxes out to the alley, setting them beside the bags of garden waste next to the trash can. Let’s hope this isn’t like the city where they wouldn’t pick up anything that wasn’t in a trash container.


Chapter 13