From USA Today bestselling and award-winning author Robin Patchen comes the first book in a brand-new romantic suspense series set on the coast of Maine. This book features a second-chance romance, a murder mystery, a twenty-year-old cold-case, a secret baby, and a small town on the coast filled with unique places, eccentric characters, and a conspiracy worth killing for.
Elle Whittemore was one of those children. Now, as a single mother, she’s built a quiet life in Briar Bay, no thanks to her child’s father, who took off before she had the chance to tell him she was pregnant. There’s one question she’s never been able to stop asking: Who is she, really? When she gets a mysterious text from the town’s harbormaster—someone she always suspected knew more than he’d said—she rushes to meet him. By the time she arrives, he’s dead—and the killer is still in the building.
Quinn Prescott walked away from Elle three years ago without a word, and he’s regretted it every day since. His undercover assignment cost him his friends, his family, and nearly his life. He’s come home to Briar Bay to heal from his wounds and win back Elle’s heart. When she plunges into a high-stakes web of deceit and murder, he’ll risk everything to protect her.
Thrown together by a conspiracy two decades in the making, Elle and Quinn race to unravel the mystery of her origins before a killer buries the truth, and them, for good. But the closer they get—to answers and to each other—the harder it is to outrun the past, and the secrets they’re both still keeping.
From a USA Today bestselling author… Don’t miss the heart-pounding first book in the Children of the Sea series, where a long-buried mystery, a secret baby, and a second chance at love collide on the rocky coast of Maine.
