Harbour Hustle. HARBOUR HUSTLE, #1

In Port Bannock, the truth is like the lake: dark, cold, and buried deep. Wade Calder is an attorney who does his best work in the shadow of the Rusty Anchor dive bar. He's a man who has traded the prestige of a big-city firm for the gritty reality of a border town, defending the people the rest of the world has forgotten. When a local fisherman is caught in a high-stakes smuggling bust, the evidence points directly to a conspiracy involving the Sûreté du Québec.
But Wade knows the difference between a guilty man and a man being used as bait. To uncover the truth, he must navigate a landscape of corruption, old grudges, and a shadow villain named Rudy Dube. He isn't doing it alone. Behind the desk is Sophie-the woman who keeps his office running and his world anchored. Their connection is measured in shared silence and the temperature of a coffee cup, a slow-burn partnership forged in the cold mineral breath of the lake.
Together with Deke, an investigator who knows every secret along the Vermont border, they prepared to pull a thread that could unravel the entire harbour. The Marie-Élise is docked and the fog is rolling in. In the first episode of this gritty legal saga, Wade Calder is about to find out that some secrets are worth killing for. Harbour Hustle is the first volume in the Wade Calder series, a story of small-town noir, legal suspense, and the people who stand against the tide.