Bay Tanner's fledgling detective agency gets off the ground when she, the Judge, and Eric Whiteside look into the murder of an old college friend of Eric's. Right before he was killed, Grey Palmer Jr. contacted Eric to tell him that while working as an archeologist on the islands off of Beaufort, SC, he had found the remains of a man who was recently killed. The next day, Grey's body is found underwater, tied to his boat, his face mutilated by the...

Bay Tanner's world is paradise until she witnesses her husband's horrific death.

While restoring her Hilton Head home after a brush with a hurricane, P.I. Bay Tanner must unravel a suspicious death and even more suspicious disappearances from a secluded private island.