Canaan's Gate: A Bay Tanner Mystery

This tenth entry in the Bay Tanner Mystery series is set in South Carolina's Lowcountry and centers on greed and deception. When bank employee Cecelia Dobbs contacts Bay Tanner's inquiry agency, she suspects a colleague of running a scam targeting the wealthy Castlemains of Hilton Head Island. She also questions the motives of the couple's caretaker, Kendra Blaine, and her connection to teller Dalton Chambers. Less than twenty-four hours after Bay accepts the case, Mrs. Castlemain dies suddenly of an apparent heart attack. Bay is grieving her father's death and adjusting to her recent marriage to Red, who has grown frustrated working for his wife. When Cecelia disappears, Nicholas Potter, the Castlemains' grandson and a Washington lobbyist, hires Bay to investigate Kendra, claiming she may be dangerous. As Bay navigates her attraction to Nick and her concerns about Cecelia's whereabouts, she learns that divided loyalties can have serious consequences.