Submerged by Dani Pettrey

Bailey Craig has to go back to the one place on earth that she doesn't want to go... Yancey, Alaska.  It is a place of shame and pain.  After her parents abandoned her to her aunt there, teenaged Bailey can't seem to cope with her pain and makes very poor choices earning her the nickname 'Easy Lay Bay'.  What's more, she will have to see Cole who is the guy she has never stopped loving.  Now her Aunt has been killed in a plane crash and Bailey being her sole heir goes to put her affairs in order and lay her to rest.


What Bailey doesn't know when she arrives in Yancey is that her Aunt was murdered and the body count keeps rising.  Bailey and Cole are thrown together as they both have skills necessary to help solve the mystery of these murders.  Cole and Bailey are both different people now.  Can they overcome the pain of their pasts?


This book reminded me of Dee Henderson's O'Malley series.  Cole has many siblings whose camaraderie is infectious.  You find yourself wishing you were part of their family as much as Bailey wishes she could be a part of it too.  Pettrey was also able to keep my attention with her action packed romantic suspense.  I can't wait to find out what happens to the next sibling in Pettrey's next book.


I received this book from Bethany House Publishers in exchange for my honest opinion whether good or bad.