Undertow of Ashwick Bay — A Novel

When a lone fisherman vanishes off the coast of Ashwick Bay, the only trace he leaves behind is an old iron-locked chest, dragged up from the Atlantic depths in his final catch. Detective Lucian Rook and journalist Elara Quinn are drawn together by the disappearance, only to find that the chest holds the first thread of a decades-old family secret someone in the harbor town is willing to kill to keep buried. As Rook and Quinn dig deeper into the bay's past, they uncover a web of hidden inheritances, false identities, and a betrayal that reaches back three generations.
Every answer they find pulls them further from shore, and closer to a truth the town of Ashwick has spent fifty years trying to drown.