Icewater Mansions

Meet Michelle "Mitch" Mitchell, a woman who epitomizes the female protagonist of the nineties - and the real woman of the nineties as well. True, not every American woman, no matter how admirable, chooses to work underwater on the oil rigs of the Texas Gulf, but Mitch has been supporting her son by doing just that...
...until the death of her estranged father takes her back to her northern Michigan home on the shores of Lake Huron, where she first learned to brave the deep. She's come simply to sell the saloon old Shannon Mitchell owned and be on her way, but a combination of doubt about the way her father met his death and an unexpected feeling that she has come home keeps her there.
Huron Harbor, Michigan, is a remote community on the shores of the great lake. Its people are sharply individualized and always interesting, if not always pleasant, to know. Allyn takes us to that town in the dead of winter, and holds us in suspense as Mitch revitalizes the saloon, makes friends and unknown enemies, and gets closer to the ugly truth about Shannon's death. And as a breathtaking climax, we go with Mitch into the freezing depths of the lake itself, where she finds that her skill as a diver may protect her from nature's dangers, but there's still the human peril to reckon with.