Part of Alex McKnight, book 7
First published 2006
Alex McKnight pulls three men from a wrecked antique boat that crashed into railroad pilings in Waishkey Bay on a freezing Fourth of July night in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The driver lies unconscious while his two companions remain dazed but alert. Alex assumes he'll never encounter them again after they're taken away by ambulance. He's wrong. The boat passengers soon entangle his best friend Vinnie in serious trouble. Alex must prevent Vinnie from either killing these men or being killed by them. Meanwhile, Natalie Reynaud, the woman at the center of Alex's world, works a perilous undercover assignment five hundred miles away in Toronto. With Vinnie threatened on one side of the border and Natalie endangered on the other, Alex confronts the bleakest crisis of his existence. He faces challenges that surpass anything from his past as he discovers exactly how far he'll go to protect those he loves.
Genres: adventure, mystery, contemporary, thriller, action
Vibes: emotional, fast-paced, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family, peril
Setting: Michigan, Waishkey Bay, Toronto
Period: Fourth of July
304 pages · Hardcover · Minotaur Books