Cold hard news - maureen a. milliken

Bernadette Bernie ODea, editor of the Peaks Weekly Watcher, can finally get back on track as a journalist after a melting snowbank in Redimere, Maine, reveals a body.

But as spring turns into a long, hot, explosive and tragic summer, the town is ripped in half.

What started out as a sad story about a mysterious death becomes something way too big for Bernie to handle.

As the towns secrets emerge, Bernie realizes shes on a path that could cost her-and others-their lives.