In the Florida Keys, you have to take the shady with the sunny. And Tarpon Cove has more than fifty shades of shady going on.

Shady No. 1: When Brad is framed using the dead body of his crazy ex–girlfriend, the Westin family—which now includes Fab, Didier, and Creole by default—gathers to plan a strategy.

Shady No. 2: Fab is having a hard time keeping her promise to go legit. It’s not her fault she tends to attract clients who want their problems solved without getting the cops involved. Trying to keep her reined in is a full-time job, and a thankless one, since Madison keeps getting roped in on “easy” jobs that wind up getting the kind of messy that requires specialized cleanup.

Shady No. 3: Ferreting out the info needed to save Brad means using sources so deep in the friend–of–a–friend network they’re anonymous even to Madison.

The only thing not shady is Creole’s love. Madison’s kept her promise never to lie to him. Mostly. But when the killer wafts like smoke through the cracks in the investigation, the danger reminds her she should’ve eaten dessert first more often.

Because once he’s through with her, the mess that’ll need cleaning up will be her.