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

“We’re in the way of whatever you need to do next. Got it.” Wylie stood, quickly followed by Garry and Carl. “Thanks for agreeing to help out.”


Kingman snorted. “More like you bullied me into it, but if it works it’s worth it.”


“It will,” Wylie replied, almost under his breath. “It has to.”


When Wylie and his friends arrived back at his house there was a package sitting on the front porch. From the return address, he knew it was the security set-up he’d asked John to send him.


“Do we get to watch you install it?” Carl asked.


“Sure, if you want. It’s not going to be all that entertaining.”


Several minutes later, Carl agreed it hadn’t been, grousing, “I was expecting cameras and motion detectors all over the place.”


“That would be overkill,” Wylie replied. “I…we need to be alerted when he opens a door or window, and which one. What I installed will do that once I program in the phone numbers.”


Chapter 50