With this gripping second novella in the Widow’s Island series, bestselling writer Melinda Leigh delivers a chilling story of murder in the Pacific Northwest.

Deputy Tessa Dark quit her career being a detective using the Seattle PD and returned to the Pacific Northwest island she calls home to look after her ailing mom. Tessa thinks her mother’s illness may be the worst thing she’ll face—until she responds to a regular call in the state park and discovers an area man harpooned to an indicator.

As the murder investigation unfolds, it becomes very clear that the sufferer harbored secrets. As well as her FBI agent closest friend, Cate, and park ranger Logan Wilde, Tessa must connect the parts prior to the murderer attacks again. However the nearer she reaches the truth, the more she discovers herself—and the ones she loves—in harm’s way.

Pressure mounts as Tessa tries to juggle the current case with her seek out the truth at the rear of her youth friend Samantha’s disappearance twenty years ago. Can Tessa find the murderer and uncover answers about Samantha without jeopardizing everything she retains dear?