The Foundation Crack

An Agate Reach Mystery, Book 2

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A winter storm tears through Agate Reach, and the damage reveals more than broken roofs. When a charming contractor rolls into town promising fast, affordable repairs, half the neighborhood signs up before the sawdust settles.

Margot Slade smells trouble before the first invoice arrives.

The work is shoddy. The materials don’t match the quotes. And the contractor’s company, newly registered, Portland mailing address, a license number that doesn’t check out, has a pattern. A trail of coastal towns where the same person showed up under a different company name after every big storm, collected deposits, and disappeared before the code inspector arrived.

But this time, the scheme has a body count. When a homeowner who threatened to report the company to the county turns up dead in his half-finished garage, the question isn’t just who’s running the con. It’s how far they’ll go to keep it running.

Margot is already pulling the thread. And in a town still recovering from the storm, questioning the one person who showed up to help makes her the villain, not the hero.