The Restricted Cove Tag: A Cozy Mystery (Salvage Bay Mystery, #4)

Salvage Bay runs on tides, tradition... and paperwork that decides what counts as truth. Boatwright Maren Cole expects a quiet morning at Tidemark Boatworks-until the land trust calls her to Lighthouse Point. The coastal path is being "managed" with new chains, swapped signs, and official-looking restrictions that don‘t match any record. The man directing volunteers, Caleb, speaks in protocols and shift coverage like he owns the shoreline. Maren and her girlfriend, Simone, have learned that in Salvage Bay, control often hides behind polite language. But when land trust staffer Tessa Lang falls on the bluff steps and the scene turns into caution tape and radios, Maren can‘t shake the feeling it wasn‘t an accident. Then, buried in mud and rusted links, Maren finds a metal tag stamped with a code that shouldn‘t exist: LP-Shift 2:14. With Detective Jonah Pike asking the questions the town won‘t, Maren follows the trail of tags, chains, and quiet authority to uncover who‘s been shaping the cove‘s rules-and what they‘re willing to do to keep the truth from going public.