The Unfound Woman

When a winter storm tears open the sand spit outside Heart’s Cove, the whole town believes Delia Strand has finally come home. Forensic archaeologist Priya Raman knows better within hours. The bones are more than a century old. Delia is still missing, years after she vanished. And the case that sent a man to prison for her death suddenly looks far less settled.

Priya came up from Portland for one plain reason: Danny Kessler asked. He’s a skip tracer who finds people who don’t want to be found, and he isn’t ready to let this one go. Neither is she. They worked side by side once before, and falling back into step is easy. They race the tide, trade late-night texts and save each other the last pastry in the box. Admitting what that ease means is harder, especially for a man who hides his own trouble behind a joke.

As they dig back into an old investigation on this storm-battered stretch of Oregon coast, neighbors talk and old wounds reopen. Someone in town is paying close attention to the investigator and the archaeologist who arrived together. Some things were buried on purpose.

What really happened to Delia Strand, and who has kept the ground quiet all these years?

The Unfound Woman is book three of The Heart’s Cove Files, a small-town romantic suspense series.