Eden Sheridan spent years recovering from a traumatic childhood while re-inventing her life as a successful business woman. Now that the lakeside Inn she bought as an abandoned derelict and re-built as an upscale resort is ready for sale, she finds herself held back by a tangled relationship with her lover, Constable Rhiannon O'Hara, and by the resentment that comes from Jubilee, the grown daughter she raised alone.
Then, a reclusive old hippie is found murdered in her isolated mountain cabin, and only days later, a successful realtor is killed on a ferry crossing. As the body count climbs in the small, interconnected communities that dot the shores of Kootenay Lake, Eden realizes that she is the only common thread in the victim's lives and Rhiannon is determined find the killer before Eden becomes the next target.

Brenda McCreight, Ph.D., is a therapist, author, and consultant specializing in services for adoptive and foster families dealing with challenges such as FASD, ADHD, conduct disorder, attachment disorder, developmental delays, and cognitive impairment. Brenda is the author of "Recognizing and Managing Children with Fetal Alcohol/Syndrome" published by the Child Welfare League of America, and of "Parenting Your Older Adopted Child" published by New Harbinger Publications and "Eden's Secret Journal: The Story of an Older Child Adoption" published by Adoption Press and "Help I've Been Adopted" by Tapestry Books. Brenda sees clients at her office in Nanaimo, British Columbia and she provides distance parent coaching by phone and by email. Most importantly, she is the mother of fourteen children and has seven grandchildren. She can be contacted through her web site at http://www.theadoptioncounselor.com