Pelican Pointe Boxed Set Books 1 - 3 (A Pelican Pointe Novel) by Vickie McKeehan

Author:Vickie McKeehan
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Beachdevil Press
Published: 2017-07-08T23:00:00+00:00

It took over an hour for Pierce Hamlin, the forty-five-year-old coroner out of Santa Cruz to make the trip to Taggert Organic Farms to tell Ethan what he pretty much already knew. It looked like Edmund Taggert had died of a heart attack. There was no sign of foul play, no sign of external trauma. The TV was still on. An open bottle of beer was left on the coffee table as if he’d just sat down for a relaxing evening in front of the tube.

“We’ll do an autopsy if you want. But it’s a safe bet he died of a heart attack. You’ll notify the next of kin, or you want me to?”

“I don’t think the old man had any family, at least none that I ever heard about. He and his wife never had any kids. But I’ll get in touch with his lawyer, make certain. Edmund once told me that he and my grandmother went out once back in high school.” The idea of Autumn Lassiter and Edmund Taggert dating had Ethan chuckling, remembering the conversation.

“Well, I guess that means you could’ve been his grandson. The lawyer would likely be old Aaron Hartley then. He’s what, seventy-five if he’s a day, older than the deceased that’s for sure.”

“And the only lawyer in Pelican Pointe.” That brought him full circle. He just realized Nick and Jordan were right. This town was sorely in need of some new blood, since seventy percent of the residents were well over the age of fifty.

How long had the town been dying? he wondered, as he went outside in search of Will, who had been badly shaken up over finding Taggert dead. But as he explained to Will what would happen next, things like the autopsy, how he would take care of getting in touch with Edmund’s lawyer, something about the old man’s death sent him a reality check.

Maybe that was what Jordan had meant the other day. How much old blood had to die off before Pelican Pointe simply dried up and there was no town left at all?

His mother had a fondness for Pelican Pointe. She’d grown up here as Lindeen Lassiter. He’d visited her mother, his grandmother, Autumn Lassiter, countless times over the years. The town had been at death’s door even then. He remembered how several of those storefronts along Ocean Street across from the house where he now lived hadn’t seen an occupant in his lifetime.

One had been the old fish hatchery. It had sat empty for two decades. That is, until Perry Altman, a chef, swung through the area on his way to Napa Valley one weekend and decided he could turn the space into his own five-star restaurant. The Pointe had been open for three years now.

Ethan suddenly realized there were no hordes of people lining up to repopulate a little town that hadn’t truly thrived since the sixties. It took people like Perry and Murphy, who had turned an old shell of a mercantile, into

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