Paradise Prey

Trouble is brewing in Paradise. Tess Titan, former Marine Patrol Officer, is waist deep in pigmy rattlesnakes, scorpion fish, stinkhorns, and lilies. All are deadly tools being used by a hit man to try and kill Tess and her family over a secret worth billions that will fund the resurgence of a crime family. Tess thought she could hide from her past, but living in Paradise is becoming far from peaceful. Her husband is having a sexual identity crisis, while her social high-stepping mother has Tess biting her tongue and wishing for amnesia. Her best friend makes a Stepford Wife look scruffy, and her godmother is acting like Don Quixote in drag. You add a corpse on a pirate ship, the theft of F. Scott Fitzgerald, a Contessa sending a letter AFTER she's dead, a revelation that saves lives, and you've got a Tess Titan Mystery.