Cursed from the Cradle

Elliot Lake... the most stubborn, sarcastic, charming bastard you'd ever want to meet.

Moving to the coast wasn't supposed to be like this: kidnapped kids, a dead grandmother in the woods, and then his parents showed up.

Reporter by day and beach bum by night, Elliot Lake ran from his successful position at the Seattle Times ten years ago to live alone in a crappy trailer on the Oregon sand. Reeling from his own past, he dropped out of life . . . but between his crazy parents, a lazy boss, a crazy ex, and a co-worker who nearly gets him killed, Elliot moves from writing the byline to becoming the headline. Turns out he knows Alder Bay better than the kidnappers, but he needs to move fast because the list of suspects is shrinking and his time is running out.

Cursed from the Cradle is the first installment of The Elliot Lake Mysteries. Released in 2012 as Stolen Spring, it's been revised in time for the release of book #2: Chaos on the Coast.