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 never said how you ended up as a private detective,” Garry said.


Wylie laughed. “My folks insisted I was going to get a college education if it killed them…and me. I had no clue what I wanted to major in until I sat in on a lecture by one of the criminal justice professors. I was intrigued, signed up for his class and that was that. I was hooked. I met John, my future business partner, in one of the classes, we hit it off, and after graduation we decided to open our own agency.”


“After seven years of being small fish in a huge pond, I’d had it. Since Gramps willed his house to me, I sold John my half of the business and moved here.”


“So am I,” Wylie replied. “If I hadn’t, I wouldn’t have met you. I’m not sure I like being the chief suspect in the abductions, at least in Kingman’s eyes, but…”


“We’re going to find the bastard who took them,” Garry stated adamantly.


Chapter 33