Maya swung by the Holt homestead to check out the barn. Besides the beer can, she found the discarded wrapper of a vending machine snack pack. Lost Harbor had very few vending machines; only the hospital and the gas station came to mind. She left behind a flyer for the local homeless shelter.
Not that she thought anything nefarious was going on in Mrs. Holt’s barn, but her complaint, especially combined with Boris Clancy’s strange behavior, equalled a red flag.
Then she drove back to town and stopped in at Gretel’s Café. Gretel was a newcomer to town, the sister of Dr. Bethany Morrison. A reformed party girl, she’d set herself the challenge of surviving an Alaska winter and in the process, fallen in love with her next door neighbor, Zander Ross.
“Are you ready for winter number two?” Ma
