Publisher's Synopsis
"Sabal Bay consignment shop owner Eve Appel is fit to be tied--family tied. Just as she is basking in the warmth of a renewed relationship with her long-lost Uncle Winston, disaster strikes. He and his less welcome companion, Darlene, have come for a visit, and their request to participate in one of rural Florida's most popular tourist activities, an airboat ride through the swamps, ends with her uncle being shot in the head. The killing looks suspiciously like a mob hit. Turns out Uncle Winston was "connected." Was he simply a bag man, or something more? Who is Darlene, really, and how did Winston acquire three Russian stepchildren, one of whom has been kidnapped by yet another mob family--this one Russian? Winston claimed to prize family above all else, but what 'family' was he talking about, his niece Eve, his relations by marriage, or his mobster employers? When Eve's best friend Madeleine is kidnapped, Eve doesn't know where
