When a woman’s body is found floating off Cape Cod, a young reporter stumbles onto a mystery that goes back centuries. ”A strange death sets a tourist town on edge in this taut thriller” – Kirkus Reviews A young reporter is sent to Cape Cod to follow up on the body of an unidentified woman found floating near the town of Chatham. Cape Cod has been the site of thousands of shipwrecks leaving the sandy shore littered with debris, legends, and ghost stories. Stacie’s editors encourage her to dig into the mix of Chatham’s quirky residents and to write about the mysteries surrounding the old Monomoy Point Lighthouse. On a lark, she makes a nighttime visit to the lighthouse with a young charter boat captain and in the process, stumbles tragically into a dark mystery that forces her to question her sanity and the truth buried in a legend. A strange death sets a tourist town on edge in this taut thriller -- Kirkus Reviews A charter captain and his customer discover a body floating near Chatham, Massachusetts. What captures the medical examiner's attention is the dead woman's old-fashioned clothing. Thanks to a Boston Globe editor's affinity for Cape Cod articles, reporter Stacie Davis gets assigned the story. She grudgingly heads to Chatham only to discover that authorities have little new information. So she spends her time writing several features about the Cape. One is about a supposedly haunted lighthouse near where the body was found. Trying to avoid a needy ex-boyfriend and to get another story, Stacie meets with handsome Capt. Carl Lane. The reporter convinces him to take her to the lighthouse at night. After a bizarre evening, the captain goes back to the lighthouse to attempt a phone call and is attacked. In a series of implausible events, he develops amnesia following the attack and can't back up Stacie's version of what happened, so the authorities view Stacie as a suspect--an overeager reporter attempting to fabricate an exciting story. She must unearth the connection, if there is one, between the Jane Doe case and the attack on Carl before she gets charged for the attack herself. In his latest thriller, Yocum has created a spirited protagonist for a potential new series. She is too curious for her own good and knows how to manipulate people to get results. Yocum, who himself worked at the Boston Globe , uses that experience to bring the newspaper industry to life for the reader. Yocum is also a Chatham resident and turns that seafaring town into a character as well, with its history and citizens front and center. The novel effectively juggles various perspectives--those of the lead, the locals, and law enforcement--giving the reader different takes on the mystery. An incisive, suspenseful series launch with a promising sleuth. Midwest Book Review The romance, adventure, discovery, and intrigue power a hard-hitting story of a young woman who dares to push ahead where others draw back, changing her life and challenging those around her in the process.Murder mystery enthusiasts will find this story excels in creating a sense of place, purpose, and intrigue that keeps them involved and guessing to the end. As with many works of fiction, there are elements to this story that arefactual. Monomoy Island is part of the Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge, totaling 7,604 acres, including 3,244 acres designated as wilderness. It is managed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. The island extends nearly ten miles south of Chatham toward Nantucket, and over the years it separated from the mainland due to the shifting sands and storm damage. Monomoy Point Lighthouse was built in 1849 and decommissioned in 1923. The tower is forty feet tall and no longer contains a light source or lens. The keeper's house is used nearly year-round by wildlife researchers. Please note that the keeper's house is not open to the public and is not left unlocked, as described in the story. Whitewash Village was a robust fishing and boat provisioning community that flourished for many years on the western tip of Monomoy, about a mile south of the lighthouse. A natural sandy harbor provided deep water anchorage and protection for sailing vessels. The village served the fishing fleets that worked Nantucket Sound and surrounding waters. Nothing remains of Whitewash Village today, which at its height housed several hundred residents and a school. Whitewash Village eventually disappeared due to the erosion of the "powder hole" harbor from a storm in the 1860s. There is no official record of murders occurring at Whitewash Village. It is estimated that in the fifty miles between Provincetown and Chatham on the outer cape, there are a thousand shipwrecks. Many legends and ghost stories originate from Cape Cod, including the Legend of the White Stallion, sometimes also referred to as the Legend of the White Horse, or the Legend of Stonehorse. Stonehorse Shoal is a nautical hazard southeast of Monomoy today. While there ha