Iconoclast

Burdened by the pressing weight of survivors guilt, Sean McPherson, an ex-cop, is desperate for redemption. At Pines & Quill, a writers retreat in the Pacific Northwest, he and his fiance, Emma Benton, are planning their lives together. He wants to go back into law enforcement. She plans to walk again. Georgio The Bull Gambino, head of a Seattle-based crime family, has a long reach. Like cockroaches, his minions infiltrate even the most inaccessible of places to do his bidding. With Seattle to the south, the Canadian border a stones throw to the north, and Bellingham Baya gateway to the Pacific Oceanimmediately to the west, Bellingham is the ideal location for the Gambino crime family to traffic drugs, weapons, and humans. But McPhersons in Gambinos way, which means he must be eliminated. The writers in residence at Pines & Quill include an Afghanistan War veteran, a professional photographer, a civil rights attorney, and a gourmet chef. But McPherson suspects that theres more going on than the joy of creating plot twists. Is one of them conspiring murder outside the pages of their manuscript?