What’re ten seconds compared to a lifetime?

Bookstore manager and amateur detective Delilah Duffy knows better than most that disaster strikes in seconds.

When Beach Read’s Happily Ever After Book Bash ends in fiery destruction, everything she’s worked for burns with it—her home, business, and relationship with Sam.

But when Beach Read’s owner offers her two weeks to find the culprit to ensure his insurance claim, Delilah knows this is her last chance to rebuild her treasured bookstore and get her life back.

So, pregnant and brokenhearted, Delilah directs her anger toward what she’s good at—solving mysteries. Hot on the trail of an arsonist while her nemesis is on hers, Delilah partners with her investigative journalist uncle Clark Duffy to piece together clues, confront suspects, and fight for the truth with more at stake than ever before.

Will she solve the case before the pyromaniac strikes again? Or will all her island dreams end in an inferno?

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “I was intrigued to see what was going to happen next, and how the whole mystery would play out and the culprit revealed. I never guessed the ending at all!”

⭐⭐⭐⭐ “…a suspenseful and captivating novel that will keep readers enthralled until the final page.”