Based on a true unsolved case from 1873.

Cape Romain's marshland doesn't give up its secrets. Tides swallow footprints. Storms rearrange dunes. On Raccoon Key, two lighthouses stand guard over one unanswered question: What really happened to Brigitte Johansen?

They found her in the keeper's cottage bedroom-throat slit from ear to ear, razor nearby. For 150 years, the island kept silent.

Now marine biologist Lennon Wilder returns to the island she swore she'd left forever-and to Grey Sutton, the man she's never forgotten. Tired of loneliness and the discontented life she's built, she's ready to fight for a different future. But reconciling with Grey means coming to terms with everything she ran from.

The lighthouse cottage is long gone, but its foundation scars the sand. When Brigitte's journal and a cache of jewels surface from forgotten places and buried ruins, Raccoon Key fractures. Lennon and Grey set out to find the treasure's rightful owner, but every answer drags them deeper into greed, lies, and a mysterious death disguised as something it wasn't. The truth may cut closer to Lennon's life than she ever imagined.

Raccoon Key is a gripping dual-timeline mystery woven with coastal suspense, slow-burn second-chance romance, and the cost of truth when silence feels safer.