When one Coast Guard officer is found dead and another goes missing, Coast Guard Investigative Service special agent Finn Walker faces his most dangerous crime yet. His only clues are what little evidence remains aboard the dead officer’s boat, and the direction the clues point to will test Finn and the Guard to their limits.
When investigative reporter–and Finn’s boss’s sister–Gabby Rowley arrives, her unrelenting questions complicate an already volatile situation. Now that she’s back, the tug on Finn’s heart is strong, but with the risks she’s taking for her next big story, he fears she might not live through it.
Thrown together by the heinous crime, Finn and Gabby can’t ignore the sparks or judgments flying between them. But will they be able to see past their preconceptions long enough to track down an elusive killer, or will they become his next mark?
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Summary
"Blood pooled like a cloud in the heightening tide of the super moon - the killing tide."
Gabby Rowley's life has just been threatened once again, and she thinks she knows why. As an investigative reporter, her instinctive abilities to uncover crimes has recently put a powerful drug lord behind bars; and someone is out for revenge. Suddenly being shuffled from Raleigh, North Carolina to the coastal town of Wilmington, Gabby's family has placed her directly in the cross hairs of another dangerous person; a man who is no threat whatsoever to her life, but certainly has the strength to break her heart in two. . . . . for a second time.
Coast Guard Investigative Service special agent Finn Walker has to steel himself against the waves of emotion that coincide with seeing Gabby Rowley; she has returned to Wilmington for her own safety, nothing else; seeing him again had nothing to do with her decision. . . . .besides, she was the one who walked out of his life without a backward glance. Sure, Gabby can stay in his loft apartment, and sure, he will help the Coast Guard community keep her free from harm, but so many things become unsure, especially when a string of lethal crimes ignite Gabby's thirst for truth.
Admittedly, the first half of this book was a bit confusing; numerous characters and a steady stream of violent events; coupled with the sense that there was a missing back story or two, but by the time the story was fully underway it was quite engaging; and its ending staged a clever beginning to more than one story about these brave coastal guardians.
I received a copy of this book from the author and publisher; the opinions stated above are entirely my own.