A vigilante mystery from the author ofAmazon’s ‘Hot New Read,’ Where Divers Dare and the 2025, award-winning Yarmouth Castle Burning…
A teenager’s body, tangled in fishing net and with the heart removed, has washed ashore at exclusive Great Island. Jeff Solano was a local kid, and the news of his death leaves the Cape shocked, especially Gina Alteri. She has been a surrogate mother to Jeff at Cape Cod Rescue. It is a foster home for disadvantaged humans like Jeff and a rescue shelter for stray dogs like a drooly, hound mix named Busta. She likes to tell people Cape Cod Rescue is ‘summer camp for the residentially challenged.’ But now it is shrouded in grief, and Gina wants justice for Jeff Solano. She needs emotional allies.
In short order she enlists her ‘loose cannon of an ex’ Billy, Busta, and a grumpy detective named Joey Silva in a vigilante search to find the killer. It is going to be a rocky quest with everybody but Busta guarding their secret wounds. And the suspect list stretches from Jeff’s parents and a youth hockey team to the underbelly of Cape Cod’s party scene, and back to Billy himself. It is going to take more than a Wiccan séance or two to solve this case. Busta must work some canine magic.
Genre: Romantic Suspense
A teenager’s body, tangled in fishing net and with the heart removed, has washed ashore at exclusive Great Island. Jeff Solano was a local kid, and the news of his death leaves the Cape shocked, especially Gina Alteri. She has been a surrogate mother to Jeff at Cape Cod Rescue. It is a foster home for disadvantaged humans like Jeff and a rescue shelter for stray dogs like a drooly, hound mix named Busta. She likes to tell people Cape Cod Rescue is ‘summer camp for the residentially challenged.’ But now it is shrouded in grief, and Gina wants justice for Jeff Solano. She needs emotional allies.
In short order she enlists her ‘loose cannon of an ex’ Billy, Busta, and a grumpy detective named Joey Silva in a vigilante search to find the killer. It is going to be a rocky quest with everybody but Busta guarding their secret wounds. And the suspect list stretches from Jeff’s parents and a youth hockey team to the underbelly of Cape Cod’s party scene, and back to Billy himself. It is going to take more than a Wiccan séance or two to solve this case. Busta must work some canine magic.
Genre: Romantic Suspense
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