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

“Alone, at last,” Garry said, taking the stool next to Wylie.


“Other than…” Wylie waved a hand around to encompass Garry’s crew.


“Give it ten and we will be. Then we can stop by your place to check on Coal.”


Garry grinned. “You know. The puppy you adopted.”


“Yep. Then you’re coming home with me. I’ll fix dessert, since we passed on it earlier, and we can totally unwind.”


Wylie lifted an eyebrow. “Unwind, how?”


“Watch a movie, make out, you know, the usual thing when two people are moving on in a relationship.”


Wylie decided he had no problem with that idea. Not in the least, as long as we don’t get carried away. I’m not sure either of us is ready to take the final step.


Chapter 62