Publishers Weekly called Valerie Wilcox’s debut mystery, Sins of Silence, distinctive and intriguing. Now her sleuthing sailing instructor returns in a thrilling new adventure. A run of bad weather means a slow season at Larstad’s Marina in Seattle, home of Kellie Montgomery’s Sound Sailing offices. But Mother Nature isn’t the only source of an ill wind. A day that starts with Kellie being held at gunpoint by a delusional environmentalist ends with the news that her friend Pearl, a hardy–and wealthy–seventy-five-year-old seafarer, is missing.
 
As Kellie prepares to do battle with an extremist group who wants live-aboards like herself ousted from their sailboat homes, she also takes on the task of finding her friend. Then, when Pearl’s family doesn’t seem to welcome her help, Kellie’s suspicions and life is put to the test.