Rachael's Story (ePub)

A grisly murder in a tiny community on Vancouver Island brings RCMP officer Rachael Cunningham in contact with 9 year old Kenny Lewis - a runaway trying to avoid a beating by his mother's drunken boyfriend. In his hiding place he unknowingly sees the killers and later witnesses one of them kill the other. With his fear of the killers, his mothers' boyfriend and any authority that may again put him in a foster home he takes advantage of an old woman who is in the beginning stages of senility. Each time he attempts to return home he finds only the abusive boyfriend and so remains with his senile friend pretending to be her grandson.

Rachael has transferred to Vancouver Island after a near death experience working undercover in Vancouver's dangerous downtown east side. She is gradually regaining her confidence and building a new life for herself. The investigation into the homicide leads to a sailboat used by the murdered man, Chuck Honeyman and his associate to bring drugs into the country - but the boat has disappeared. Then continuous break-ins to Honeyman's residence make the RCMP realize that he must have hidden something valuable there. He had been skimming from the crime family that he was transporting for and has cash and diamonds stashed in a couple of places. Rachael and her co officers are searching for the hidden cache, the sailboat and young Kenny whom they feel to be in danger. Unfortunately members of the crime family are also searching for the same things.

When they first realize the sailboat is missing Rachael is sent to interview and alert coast guard captains on the west coast of Vancouver Island. Lyle Carter, one of the captains, pays close attention to Rachael and uses native fishermen and unorthodox methods to help her find the elusive sailboat and follow it down the coast to Vancouver.

Things bubble to a head in Burrard Inlet where the drug family, the sailboat transporting the new drugs into the country, the police and coast guard all come together in a violent clash.