Merry Folger is more than ready for a romantic vacation
with her fiancé Peter when fate--and her police chief
father--intervenes. Twenty-one-year-old Jay Santorski
never should have drowned in the frigid waters off the
Nantucket shore. What was the athlete, Harvard scholar,
and part-time scalloper doing out alone in the storm-
churned bay?
At her father's insistence--and over
Peter's objections--Merry returns to the island to
investigate, only to be confronted at every turn by false
leads and dead ends. And Police Chief John Folger is
behind too many of these roadblocks. For the first time,
Merry begins to feel she cannot trust her lifelong role
model--her own father....