Publisher's Synopsis
A small, isolated fishing village on the tip of Cape Cod, a place where the town's jail has one cell with a broken lock and the police force consists of the Chief and two deputies, seems an unlikely spot for dead women to be washing ashore. And yet, so far this summer, two bodies have been discovered on the morning tide, both resembling each other and Jamie Janson.Jamie returns to Oyster Point to clean out and sell her grandaunt Pita's Cape Cod cottage, a place filled with family memories - when there had been a family. Her homecoming is marred by the discovery of a woman's body during her morning run along the beach. Huddled around the seaweed encrusted form is a group of men, including Oyster Point's Chief of Police, Jack Hereford. Is their meeting destiny, chance or orchestrated by Pita? Jack soon realizes that Jamie's emotional fragility belies her inner strength and courage - unspoken qualities by Pita when she asked him to watch over Jamie. That deathbed promise will turn out to be the toughest part of his job and maybe the best part of his life.As Jamie settles into her life on the Cape, an unknown male with camera in hand shadows her everywhere - on the beach, around her cottage, even at Jack's sister's house. With her life spinning out of control, Jamie's visions resume, dreams she hasn't had since her parents were killed when she was sixteen. Making a vow to confront the stalker and keep him from forcing her to live in fear, she and Jack devise a plan to entice the suspected stalker out into the open. The scheme backfires and Jamie's gone....
