The Adventure Continues…
Megan & Barney survive Hurricane Arlene, and in the aftermath Barney unearths an unusual mystery. A man declared dead years ago is living outside of Citrus Beach, with a price still on his head. Megan tries to unravel his story, but there is a catch, and they have to act quickly before his killers try again. And this time they might succeed, killing anyone who might … who might get in the way: be it a inquisitive redheaded Gardener or a playful Beagle!
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This was another great book by V.K. Williams. After Hurricane Arlene had landed with the eye of the storm and stronger back winds made landing at Lady Fish Bay. Megan and Barney went to check on Mrs. Potter’s cottage there. To Megan it wasn’t a cottage it was huge. Then as they walked the beach and Lucy came, they started ringing mementos that they felt the people who rented the cottages or lived there full time would want back. They found a wedding picture, lot of trinkets and Barney dug up a little wood box. Mrs. Porter came by one day to look at the beginnings of their collection and she recognized the wedding picture of an old friend of her’s that used to live in Lady Fish Bay. Then one day the dranddaughter of Mrs. Jamison showed up with her car packed full of all her belongings. She wanted to see how Lady Fish Bay had made it through the storm. Before she met Megan, the box that Barney found and kept trying to steal back, Megan decided to open it. It had keepsakes from a young girl and also a newspaper article with a picture of her father who was presumed dead and another article where after 7 years he was declared dead. Megan, Lucy and Paul all thought the man looked familiar and they had seen him around Citris Beach, so they showed the picture without the article to Mrs. Potter who told them that was Bob Stump, a man she rented another of her cottages to in Lady Fish Bay. Megan immediately thought it looked like Tom Jamison. So she started research on-line about him and pretty soon Aiden showed up asking her why she was involved in an old unsolved FBI case. She explained her theory to him. Meanwhile Taylor had taken a big role in the cataloging of the things they found and a group of volunteers had agreed to come help collect items that had washed up on the beach. Then Taylor’s grandmother arrived and she and Mrs Potter caught up and acted like the friends they had been years before. Megan and Mrs Potter invited Bob to dinner at her cabin in Lady Fish Bay, knowing Mrs. Jamison and Taylor would be there but not telling them. By this time they found out that Bob had been beaten and left for dead many years before in the Everglades and had amnesia. He had named himself Bob Stump and had driven from Miami once he was well enough and something about Lady Fish Bay made him want to stay there, so when Megan, Aiden Mrs. Jamison and Taylor were getting ready for dinner that they had invited Bob to, as soon as Taylor saw him she yelled Daddy. Some memories started to come back and Aiden explained to him that he had been helping the FBI with a smuggling ring that was coming out of his bonded warehouse run by his partner Malcolm. The rest of the story explains what all happens and how they manage to catch the bad guys. There is a lot of action, some tear filled moments and some intrigue, with about a thimble full of romance thrown in. I LOVED this book and think everyone else would too, but I recommend reading book one first. Next I will read book three and see what Megan gets herself involved with this time.