by Dani Pettrey
Part of Alaskan Courage
First published 2016
Ben McKenna is pulling nets off the Alaskan coast when his catch includes something no fisherman expects: the body of a Russian open water swimmer. The death looks suspicious from the start, and Ben is not the kind of man who walks away from unanswered questions. Libby Jennings gets drawn in fast. She had shared a room with the dead woman years ago, and that connection makes her both a witness and a target. As Ben and Libby dig into what happened, the picture that forms is darker than either of them anticipated. Someone wanted this woman dead, and the reasons reach further than a remote Alaskan inlet. Ben and Libby have to trust each other to find the truth, but the closer they get, the more danger closes in around them. The tension between solving the case and staying alive runs through every chapter, and so does the pull forming between two people who never expected to be thrown together like this.
Genres: romance, suspense, mystery, adult, adult-fiction, thriller
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, fast-paced, suspenseful, tension-filled
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, forced-proximity, found-family, slow-burn
Setting: Alaska
Period: contemporary
128 pages · Kindle Edition · Bethany House Publishers
Content warnings: death, murder, violence