"In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves The Thursday Murder Club. There's Red Ron, the infamous former socialist firebrand, still causing trouble; gentle Joyce, widowed, pining for another resident, but surely not as innocent as she seems; Ibrahim, a former therapist who understands the darker side of human nature; and Elizabeth? Well, no one...

A property developer with a terrifying secret must outrun her past and overcome the fear of her future.

Emily Callaghan is back in her quaint northern Michigan hometown of Trillium Bay: divorced, flat broke, and dragging along her twelve-year-old. The arrangement is that Emily, a house flipper, will renovate one of her grandmother's rental properties in exchange for a much-needed loan. But her dad is more distant than ever; her younger sister is dating a much older man, the cottage remodel grows increasingly daunting... and then there's out-of-towner...

Xuan's real estate project involved reclamation of the sea, threatening the livelihood of the residents who relied on the sea to make a living. Bearing family secrets, Shan was dispatched to stop Xuan. During their encounters, they fall in love with each other. Even though Xuan stopped the reclamation plan out of his love for Shan, Shan got injured in an accident and vanished into the sea.