[Jim Stanton Mysteries 03] • Sea Change

In this, his third mystery, retired community journalist Jim Stanton comes face to face with something that had always been missing from his character – anger that boils down to hate.

Trained as a young man by the U.S. Navy to be one of a select group of covert warriors, Stanton walked away from that life at his first opportunity, recognizing that the anger that fueled his teammates was absent from his makeup.

Now, forty years later, a chain of events sees him attacked and severely injured, returned to the bliss of a newlywed, and then into the depths of despair. These events ignite in him an anger he has never known. That anger spawns in a search for a kidnapped couple aboard their yacht, and then grows into a burning hate at the overt ruthlessness of the kidnappers.

Driven by that anger and armed with unending curiosity, Stanton and his new bride, Jan, chase answers from Prince Rupert, British Columbia, and the Haida Quaii or “Archipelago of the North,” to Washington and back to Oregon in a maddening search that brings them to the brink of their abilities.

At that brink Stanton must peer into the abyss, and decide if he’s going to submit to his anger or remain true to the man he has always tried to be.

As the final mystery of his career unravels, Jim and Jan wonder if the rough sea they’ve been navigating will ever be calm again.

In the end they find answers all of the questions they knew to ask, and some they never dreamed of asking...