
Shadow Gap, Alaska looks postcard-perfect: towering mountains, cold blue water, and a town where everyone knows your name. But when Police Chief Autumn Long spots a drowning victim from a bush plane and a mysterious outsider, Grier Brenner, dives into the icy inlet to save her, quiet gives way to chaos. The victim claims a boat sank—even though sonar says otherwise. A dive to an old shipwreck turns up a body with a bullet in the skull. An officer is shot. And Autumn’s own father is targeted at home.
As storm systems and rumors sweep the Tongass, Autumn fights political enemies and the loss of her police certification while Grier slips between the seams of town life—helpful, skilled, and clearly hiding. Together they’ll recover bodies, dodge ambushes, and follow a trail from small-town diners to international fugitives, a rogue intelligence scheme, and a long-ago family secret that explodes the present.
Cold Light of Day is a breathless romantic suspense set against wild, rain-soaked Alaska. It blends a murder mystery, wilderness survival, and a slow-burn love story about two people who learn to trust when it matters most.