Orchid Beach

Major Holly Barker reports for her first morning as deputy chief in sunny Orchid Beach, Florida, and finds the chief who hired her shot in the head and fighting for his life. At thirty-seven, forced out of the Army military police after taking on a superior, she came south for a clean start and a badge that still means something. Instead she gets a polite, palm-lined town with gated houses and closed mouths, a murdered colleague, and a department that sees her as an outsider. Her only real ally is Daisy, a fiercely loyal Doberman who watches her back. To survive here, Holly will have to learn who really owns Orchid Beach, and she will have to learn it alone.