Anna Silver has received a frantic phone call from her
father, ex-convict Davis Silver. He tells her someone is
after him and he's in danger. Davis also tells his daughter
that he's mailed her something, a letter containing vital
information, and that she knows where to find it. Then the
phone call abruptly cuts off. A short time later, Anna
learns her father is dead. The police say that Davis was
running from the security force of the company he worked
for. Apparently, Davis, the accountant for the firm, had
been stealing money and sending it to offshore bank
accounts. Anna is skeptical, but as this is exactly why her
father was sent to prison in the first place, what's not to
believe about it? Unfortunately, Anna can't imagine where
to find whatever her father has sent her. She knows
something is wrong about the whole thing, and thinks the
police are too complacent and eager to write off his death
as accidental. She decides to turn to her father's trusted
friend Brent Carver for help.
Brent is more than just her father's friend; he was her
father's former cellmate in prison. Brent had spent 20
years in prison, from the time he was 16, for the murder of
his father. Now on parole, he spends his time quietly in
his remote home on the Pacific Coast of Canada; painting,
and keeping to himself. After Anna arrives, the pair finds
that there is more to her father's death than has been let
on. Davis was murdered, and whatever he sent to Anna, these
people want back; and are willing to do whatever they have
to in order to retrieve the information. Rand, the strong
arm of the firm, quickly discovers where Anna has gone for
help, and sets out after her with his henchmen. Since Rand
has had no qualms about murdering anyone who gets in his
way, the pair go on the run for their lives; and to try to
find the information Anna's father was so desperate to get
to her.
Although occasionally gruesome, the tone in DARK WATERS is
relatively low-key and suspenseful. This is much more a
character driven story than action driven, though there is
plenty of that. Brent and Anna both have painful
childhoods, and as they come to know the other better; they
begin to let down their guard and confide in the other.
Trust is a huge issue for both of them, and as they let the
other into their innermost secrets and pain, their
connection deepens. With Rand hot on their heels, however,
they must temper their burgeoning relationship with
attempting to stay alive long enough to find what Anna's
father wanted her to know.
This is quite the intriguing story, and the why behind
Davis Silver's original fraud conviction was a heartbreaking
revelation. Toni Anderson has written a thought-provoking
story here, one that will stay with the reader for quite
some time.
Danger once again laps at the shores of Barkley Sound,
the Graveyard of the Pacific...
Since her rocky childhood and its abrupt, brutal
ending, schoolteacher Anna Silver hasn't given her trust
easily. But when her estranged father gets in over his
head—again—and winds up dead, his last message
to Anna is as clear as it is insistent: she's in danger and
Brent Carver, the man with whom he shared a prison cell for
five years, is the only person she should turn to for help.
With nowhere else to go and with her father's killer on her
trail, Anna flees to what she hopes is safety.
Tucked into the west coast of Vancouver Island, Brent
Carver's isolated home hasn't seen many visitors. And his
friend's daughter is the last person he ever expected to
grace his doorstep. She's in trouble, and he can't deny her
protection...just as he can't deny his attraction to the
independent beauty. As their passion sparks into flame, the
perfect storm brews off the coast of his island home,
bringing with it a sadistic killer hunting Anna and the
secrets she's come close to uncovering.
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