Sophie Bright and her friends are heading to Key West for what should be a celebration.

Her friend Hal has spent years hiding behind the wildly successful romance-author persona Desiré Everleigh, and now Desiré has been nominated for one of the genre’s most coveted honors: the Siren’s Kiss Award.

So Sophie and her Rising Tides family travel to the Conch Crown Resort for a Valentine’s weekend filled with author panels, parties, old rivalries, and a glamorous awards gala at the Hemingway House.

Then someone dies.

As suspicion begins to circle, Sophie is pulled into a mystery tangled with publishing politics, long-held grudges, carefully guarded secrets, and the life Hal has worked so hard to keep separate from his own.

For Hal, the nomination is something far more important than applause or pageantry. It is validation that the stories he has poured himself into matter.

The last thing he wants is to become part of the spectacle.

And as Sophie searches for a killer, protecting Hal may mean protecting more than his reputation. It may mean keeping the identity of Desiré Everleigh from becoming the convention’s biggest story.

The Siren’s Kiss is Book Three of the Rising Tides Mysteries, blending paranormal mystery, found family, slow-burn romance, and the strange magic of the Florida Keys.