Waterline (Cheshire Cat Mystery Series)

When a mysterious and fiery explosion takes the life of her estranged, adulterous husband, antiques dealer and Civil War reenactor Virginia Ross is unofficially blamed for murder. Living aboard and restoring her 1948 motor-yacht, Chaucer, she is hoping to fulfill her long-time dream of opening a shop specializing in maritime antiques. As she becomes friends with octogenarian customer, Miss Eugenia Allston, and romantically involved with the artist she contracts to paint the name on Chaucer's stern, Remy Ravenel , Virginia begins to uncover startling parallels between her husband's probable murder and a pair of decades-old unsolved mysteries—the disappearance of Miss Eugenia's half-sister Geneva McKenna during Hurricane Hazel of 1954, and the apparent murder of Geneva's gentleman friend aboard Geneva's boat, Cheshire, in 1949. Could the mysterious death of Virginia's husband be somehow linked to Geneva, who disappeared so long ago and happened to own a boat eerily similar to her own? Or are these events merely coincidental? Virginia finds herself fighting for her own life as she races against time to unscramble the pieces of the decades-old crimes, hoping they will lead her to answers.