A dead man. A stolen ledger. A town built on secrets. When Boston forensic accountant Anika Rao returns to storm-bound Greyhaven, she expects to meet the mentor who summoned her home. Instead, she discovers Councilor Gideon Shaw murdered aboard the last ferry—clutching Anika’s missing red scarf. The evidence leads to a vanished briefcase, corrupted disaster-relief funds, stolen artwork, and a powerful harbor conspiracy. To clear her name and find her missing mentor, Anika must work with Lucas Calder, the harbor investigator she walked away from eleven years earlier. Their search is complicated by Felix Bell, a wedding photographer with excellent timing behind a camera and terrible timing everywhere else. Together, they follow the clues from a burning cottage and an abandoned island hotel to dangerous waters and secret tunnels beneath Crow Point Lighthouse. As the storm intensifies, carefully constructed alibis begin to collapse. Every suspect is hiding something—and the person Anika trusts most may be the one who designed the crime. Dead Tide at Crow Point is a fast-paced adult crime thriller combining an atmospheric coastal mystery, high-stakes adventure, slow-burn romance, sharp dialogue, and dark situational humor.