Called back to her hometown on the Oregon Coast, Harvard law student, Abigail Daniels, leaves her new life on hold while she struggles with the suddent death of her mother. The doctor calls the death a heart attack. But after viewing the body, the mortician and Abigail both agree Elizabeth Daniels was more than likely frightened to death.With the possibility of someone deliberately causing her mother's death, Abigail enters what she now believes to be a murder investigation. The more she delves into the town's secrets, the more she uncovers layers of possible murder suspects--one being her grade school nemesis, now real estate broker, Andy Andrews. The love/hate relationship blooms in the midst of the turmoil and her archenemy becomes her lover. Together they uncover not only a possible motive for murder, but the possibility of buried treasure from a pirate ship washed ashore some 150 years earlier. Together they search for the lost treasures that could be a link to the untimely death of Elizabeth Daniels.
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