Tempest — Trixie Stilletto

Widowed ex private eye Allison Calhoun has left behind the career of heart and her native Boston for the sleepy Tennessee town of Piney Bluffs. All she wants to do is heal and write the great American novel. Only Piney Bluffs is a hotbed of decades-long secrets and lies all seething just under the surface of the humid summer.
Enter C.J. Lanahan. Once the best friend of Ally's husband and always a thorn in her side, journalist C.J. pushes all of Ally's buttons and not all in a good way. On top of that, his newspaper and editorials seem to be stirring up a hornets nest folks 'round here want left alone. When C.J. is a murder suspect and then almost killed himself, things go from hot to deadly quicker than a heat-driven storm in this Tennessee valley.
Can Ally and C.J. live long enough to expose the truth or will the long-held secrets stay buried forever?