The Drowned Pact

<p><strong>The Drowned Pact</strong></p><p><em>A Coastal Murders Novel</em></p><p>by <strong>Barry Sargent</strong></p><p>Alex Rowe left Breaker's Reach behind after exposing the truth no one wanted uncovered.</p><p>The town didn't forget her.</p><p>When a luxury yacht explodes off the coast during a private gathering of powerful insiders the deaths are ruled an accident within hours. But the names involved are too familiar and the silence that follows is too practiced.</p><p>Brought back unofficially as an outside investigator Alex Rowe returns to a town that no longer pretends to welcome her. With no badge authority and no protection she uncovers evidence of a secret agreement formed years earlier after a devastating storm a pact that allowed influential families to commit crimes under the cover of emergency loyalty and survival.</p><p>This time the murders aren't about revenge.</p><p>They're about prevention.</p><p>As witnesses recant records vanish and pressure closes in from every direction Alex realizes she's no longer chasing a killer. She's challenging a system designed to protect itself at any cost.</p><p>And systems don't go down quietly.</p><p><em>The Drowned Pact</em> is a tense atmospheric crime thriller about coordinated corruption enforced silence and what happens when telling the truth makes you expendable.</p>