Burdened by the pressing weight of survivor's guilt, Sean McPherson, an ex-cop, is desperate for redemption. At Pines & Quill, a writer's retreat in the Pacific Northwest, he and his fiancee, Emma Benton, are planning their lives together. He wants to go back into law enforcement. She plans to walk again. Georgio 'The Bull' Gambino, head of a Seattle-based crime family, has a long reach. Like cockroaches, his minions infiltrate even the most inaccessible of places to do his bidding. With Seattle to the south, the Canadian border a stone's throw to the north, and Bellingham Bay - a gateway to the Pacific Ocean - immediately to the west, Bellingham is the ideal location for the Gambino crime family to traffic drugs, weapons, and humans. But McPherson's in Gambino's way, which means he must be eliminated. The writers in residence at Pines & Quill include an Afghanistan War veteran, a professional photographer, a civil rights attorney, and a gourmet chef. But McPherson suspects that there's more going on than the joy of creating plot twists. Is one of them conspiring murder outside the pages of their manuscript?
- ISBN10 1684631254
- ISBN13 9781684631254
- Publish Date 16 June 2022 (first published 3 May 2022)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Publish Country US
- Imprint SparkPress
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 312
- Language English