Her name is Michelle Mitchell, but friends call her Mitch. For years this tough-talking single mother has been making ends meet the hard way: deepwater welding in the Gulf of Mexico. Then, after the "accidental" death of her estranged father, she returns home to the small town of Huron Harbor, Michigan—and finds that he was involved in some very lethal business. Mitch suspects the worst: her father was murdered. And before he died, he was gripped by fear. Why else was he keeping loaded guns inside his isolated cottage and planning a drastic move to Baja? Soon Mitch is digging into his shady past and discovering shattering secrets about her family—and a shocking plot that threatens her very life.

A drowned man is a dead man...so how did this one disappear? Meet Michelle "Mitch" Mitchell— tough, young single mom and a gutsy deepwater diver. As a favor to her hometown sheriff, Mitch has agreed to an ugly job; diving in the black waters of Michigan's Huron Harbor. Mitch descends into the murky darkness of the Odawa River to find Jimmy Calderon, who ran his car off a rain-slicked road. The car is there, but Jimmy isn't. The police call it an "unfortunate accident," but Mitch thinks there's a lot more to it. She may getting in over her head, but she knows the answers lie deep under the deadly...

Doug Allyn continually receives, praise for his series featuring deep water diver Michelle "Mitch" Mitchell. In his third novel in the series, Allyn intertwines an examination of parent/child relationships with an engaging puzzle to create a work of suspense and psychological depth.When Mitch decides to reconnect with her estranged young son, she embarks on an emotional journey that forces her to face disturbing truths about her own mother's troubling death several years previous.