<P><B>Jill Gardner has left her book-and-coffee shop behind to spend Thanksgiving week in coastal Oregon with her cop boyfriend her golden retriever Emma and a crowd of friends and family. But before the feast can start foul play interrupts their vacation . . .</B></p><p>The rented house was supposed to be a relaxing getaway. But Jill and her companions feel a sense of danger instead. First they learn that their hosts' son had a fiancée but her disappearance remains unexplained—and then they meet some menacing members of a local trail-riding club. When one of Jill and Greg's friends finds human remains amid the dunes—with a diamond ring around one mummified finger—things start heating up fast and they'll be thankful just to survive through the long weekend . . .</P>
