On an island off Seattle, old glass museum director Eugenia Swift and PI Cyrus Colfax pretend to be lovers on holiday as they investigate murder and the theft of a stolen glass object. The play-acting leads to the real thing.

An aging fitness instructor and a young librarian, who work in the same hospital, decide to cut costs and share an apartment, much to the disapproval of fellow workers and the instructor's own daughter, a psychologist. There is romance and there is murder. By the author of Dance with the Devil.

"Penelope Hammond finds herself a widow at the age of twenty-three, having been married five years to a man she barely knew. Her husband, David Hammond, Lord Hampstead, was a member of the House of Lords who rarely said more than a few words to her in a week's time--and often did not come home at night. But Lord Hampstead was from a wealthy, powerful London family with no enemies, so why was he murdered? Penelope is a penniless widow with few friends...