Fire Chief Colleen McCabe is enjoying an uneventful summer supervising her firefighters, making rounds with her Border collie Sparky, and keeping an eye on the wild horses escaped from the local sanctuary. But when a dead body washes up on shore, she knows trouble has arrived in Corolla. More...

It’s mid-August in the Outer Banks village of Corolla, North Carolina and Fire Chief Colleen McCabe is conducting rookie training and spending increasingly more time with her best friend, Sheriff Bill Dorman.  The wild horses have been relocated to the sanctuary, and the town is occupied with the upcoming local theatre production.  All is right […] More...

PACIFIC BOOK AWARDS FINALIST IN SUSPENSE, LIBRARY OF VIRGINIA LITERARY AWARD NOMINEE               Fire Chief Colleen McCabe is enjoying a quiet summer in the Outer Banks and a budding romance with Sheriff Bill Dorman. However, her peaceful start to the tourist season is shattered when a tropical storm blows through Corolla and unearths a body buried under a vacation […] More...